Books

Books I like to recommend because they are really well written, have a high information content and I personally work with them.

  1. B. Lavery, Nelson’s Navy. The Ships, Men and Organisation. 1793-1815 New Edition (London 2012)
  2. P. Goodwin, Men O’ War. The Illustrated History of Life in Nelson’s Navy (London 2003)
  3. B. Ireland, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail. War at Sea 1756-1815 ( London 2000)
  4. N. Tracy, Nelson’s Battles. The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail (London 1996)
  5. G. Hutchinson, Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition. Lost and Found (New York 2017)
  6. D.Davies, A brief history of Figthing Ships (London 1996)
  7. A. Lambert, War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650- 1850 (London 2000)
  8. G. Wells, Naval Customs and traditions (London 1930)
  9. P. Goodwin, HMS Victory, Pocket Manuel 1805 (London 2015)
  10. J. Eastland a. I. Ballantyne, HMS Victory. First Rate 1765 (London 2011)
  11. B. Pappalardo, How to survive in the Georgian Navy. A Sailor’s Guide (London 2019)
  12. M. Robson, Not Enough Room to swing a cat. Naval Slang and its everyday usage (London 2008)
  13. J. Bennett, Sailing into the Past. Learning from replica Ships (London 2009)
  14. M. P. Smith, Terror at Sea. True Tales of shipwrecks, cannibalism, pirates, fire at sea & otherdire disasters in the 18th& 19th centuries (Maine, 1995)
  15. J. Lowry, Fiddlers and whores. the candid memoirs of a surgeon in Nelson’s fleet, James Lowry, 1798 (London 2006)
  16. B. Lavery, Royal Tars. The lower deck of the royal navy, 875-1850 (London 2010)
  17. J. MacDonald, Feeding Nelson’s Navy. The true story of food at sea in the georgian era ( London 2004)
  18. R. and L. Adkins, Jack Tar. Life in Nelson’s Navy (London 2008)