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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Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy
by Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins -
After Jutland: The Naval War in North European Waters, June 1916-November 1918
by James Goldrick -
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942
by Max Hastings -
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
by Andrew Gordon -
Destroyer Captain: Memoirs of the War at Sea, 1942-45
by Roger Hill -
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945
by James Jinks & Peter Hennessy
