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Post Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:32 pm    Post subject: Naval books Reply with quote

The Press Gang: Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain by Nicholas Rogers, Hambledon Continuum, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-8528-5568-0
http://www.hambledon.co.uk/53727.htm


Hell Upon Water : Prisoners of War in Britain 1793-1815 by Paul Chamberlain, the History Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-8622-7466-2
http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=7748&ProductID=7387


The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail by Donald A. Petrie, US Naval Institute Press, 2001 ISBN: 978-1-5575-0669-6
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2555335
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Post Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some more:

Roman navy (out of period but "the first true examination of the Roman Navy as an independent arm of the military")
The Navies of Rome by Michael Pitassi, Boydell Press, March 2009 ISBN: 978-1-8438-3409-0
http://www.boydell.co.uk/4383409X.HTM

Pepys’s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1649-1689 by J.D. Davies, Seaforth, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-8483-2014-7
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1760

HMS Fowey, Lost and Found: Being the Discovery, Excavation, and Identification of a British Man-of-War Lost off the Cape of Florida in 1748 by Russell K. Skowronek and George R. Fischer, University Press of Florida, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8130-3320-4
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=SKOWRF06

The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin’s Extraordinary Adventure aboard Fitzroy’s Famous Survey Ship by James Taylor, the Naval Institute Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-5911-4920-0
http://www.usni.org/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1727&DEPARTMENT_ID=113

The Miracle of the Kent: A Tale of Courage, Faith, and Fire by Nicholas Tracy, Westholme, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-59416-072-1
http://www.westholmepublishing.com/miraclekent.html
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