Nautical
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
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Thurídur Einarsdóttir (1777-1863) was born in a hamlet on the harsh coast of Iceland, the child of a poor seasonal fishing ...Read Review
Flight to Freedom
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Lieutenant Commander Terry Cook is skipper of the USS Tanager, an obsolescent minesweeper in the wrong place at the wrong time. The place ...Read Review
Yankee Mission (Thomas Kydd, 25)
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The 25th book in the Thomas Kydd series is set at the time of the United States’ declaration of war with Britain in 1812 ...Read Review
SBS: Special Boat Squadron
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Iain Gale is a military historian, and he assures his readers that Special Boat Squadron is ‘based on historical fact’. However, I am ...Read Review
Murder on the Marmora (Ocean Liner Mysteries)
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December 1908, and the Marmora departs the Port of London for a six-month cruise to warmer climes. This is the fifth in the Ocean ...Read Review
The Drinker of Horizons (Sands of the Emperor, 3)
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Couto’s Sands of the Emperor trilogy explores the destruction of a nation and subjugation of its people. This third book relates a ...Read Review
Sailor of Liberty (The Philippe Kermorvant Thrillers, 1)
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1793: France is in the grip of a fanatical regime and the age of Madame Guillotine as terror rules and heads fall. Philippe Kermorvant, ...Read Review
The Heiress at Sea
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Twenty-one and still unmarried, Lady Cassia McQuoid feels doomed to life as a spinster. Dreading a dull existence of doing ladylike things like ...Read Review
Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck that Shocked Restoration Britain
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James, Duke of York (later, briefly, James II of England before he was exiled to France in 1688) traveled aboard the Gloucester in 1682 to ...Read Review
In the Shadows of Guadalcanal (Casemate Fiction)
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Tony Colombo survives a torpedo on a commercial vessel in 1939 and decides to activate his U.S. Naval Reserve status so that he ...Read Review