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Book Reviews

• Henry Baynham: From the Lower Deck
  The Old Navy 1780-1840
• John Biggins: The Emperor's Coloured Coat
  - the adventures of an Austrian naval lieutenant in 1912-1914
• John Biggins: A Sailor of Austria
  - the exploits of an Austro-Hungarian submarine commander
• David Cannadine: Trafalgar in History
  A Battle and its Afterlife
• Larrie D. Ferreiro: Ships and Science
  The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
• C.S. Forester: Horatio Hornblower*
  - classic age-of-sail naval fiction
• James Hanley: The Ocean
  - five men in a lifeboat
• Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought
  Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
• Garrett Mattingly: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada*
  - a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
• Dirk Meier: Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages
  - the Baltic, the North Sea, the North Atlantic and Russian rivers
• Joseph Needham: The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3*
  - nautical technology and the compass
• Patrick O'Brian: The Aubrey/Maturin books
  - a naval lieutenant and a penniless physician meet at Port Mahon in 1801...
• Ray Parkin: H.M. Bark Endeavour
  - her voyage up the east coast of Australia
• C. Northcote Parkinson: Britannia Rules
  The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
• C. Northcote Parkinson: The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower; Devil to Pay
  - a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero

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