Recommendations from our site
“If a grisly story of adventure on the high seas is what you’re after, David Grann, writer of wonderful tales of narrative nonfiction, had a new book out in May: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder about an 18th-century British man-of-war which was shipwrecked off Patagonia.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Early Summer 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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US Navy: A Concise History
by Craig L. Symonds -
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
by Ian W. Toll -
Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery
by Nathaniel Philbrick -
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War
by Samuel Eliot Morison -
The Cruel Sea
by Nicholas Monsarrat -
World War II at Sea: A Global History
by Craig L. Symonds
