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AOS Naval Non-Fiction


Alex Dienst

The Navy of the Republic of Texas, 1835-1845

Arthur Nelson

The Tudor Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1845-1603

Brian Vale

The Audacious Admiral Cochrane: The True Life Of A Naval Legend

Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

The Major Operations of the Navies in the Wars of American Independence

Charles Rathbone Low

History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863)

Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the World; with a Sketch of his Life

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Commodore Paul Jones

Stephen Decatur

David Hannay

Admiral Blake

Life of Frederick Marryat

Rodney

Edgar Stanton Maclay

A History of American Privateers

Edward Howard

Memoirs of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, K. C. B

Frederick Chamier

The Life of a Sailor

George Shelvocke

A Privateer's Voyage Round the World

Ian W. Toll

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy

J. R. Hutchinson

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

James Fenimore Cooper

Ned Myers: or Life before the Mast

Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers

The History of the Navy of the United States of America

John Barrow

Life and Correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith: Vol. I and II

John Clerk

An Essay On Naval Tactics, Systematical And Historical

John Jennings

Tattered Ensign: The Story of America's Most Famous Fighting Frigate, U.S.S. Constitution

Matthew Henry Barker aka ‘The Old Sailor’

The Life of Nelson

Robert Carse

Blockade: The Civil War at Sea

Samuel Eliot Morison

John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography

"Old Bruin": Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, 1796–1858

Samuel Leech

Thirty Years from Home: A Seamans View of the War of 1812

Sir Edward Belcher & others

The Last of the Arctic Voyages

Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.)

Memoirs and letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste

Theodore Roosevelt

The Naval War of 1812

Thomas Clark

Naval history of the United States: from the commencement of the Revolutionary war to the present time

Thomas Cochrane Earl of Dundonald

The Autobiography of a Seaman

Thomas Sturges Jackson (Editor)

Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805

Victor Suthren

The War of 1812

To Go Upon Discovery: James Cook and Canada, from 1758 to 1779

The Sea Has No End: The Life of Louis-Antoine De Bougainville

W. R. O'Byrne

Naval Biographical Dictionary: comprising the life and service of every living officer in Her Majesty`s Navy, who was serving or who had retired by 1845, from the rank of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Lieutenant Inclusive.

W. S. Gilly

Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849

William Bligh

A voyage to the South sea: undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies ..

William Falconer

An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship

William Clark Russell

Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England

The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood

Nelson's Words and Deeds: A Selection from the Dispatches and Correspondence of Horatio Nelson

Pictures from the Life of Nelson

William Henry Smyth

The Sailor's Word-Book : An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including Some More Especially Military and Scientific... As Well As Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

William James

The Naval History of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820

Naval Occurrences of the War of 1812: A Full and Correct Account of the Naval War Between Great Britain and the United States of America,1812-1815

William Richardson

A Mariner of England: an Account of the Career of William Richardson from Cabin Boy in the Merchant Service to Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy (1780 to 1819) as told by Himself

William S. Dudley & Michael J. Crawford (editors)

The Naval War of 1812: A documentary history

Woodes Rogers

Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne: being the journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, master mariner

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