Best Naval History Books

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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
by Ian W. Toll
1,189 members
26 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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2
The Armada
by Garrett Mattingly
1,238 members
15 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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4
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle
by Roy Adkins
754 members
13 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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5
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
by N. A. M. Rodger
651 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf 23-26 October 1944
by Thomas J. Cutler
325 members
4 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
by Clay Blair
304 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
by Robert K. Massie
1,094 members
18 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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The Battle of the Atlantic
by Donald Macintyre
73 members
½ 3.3
2 Members
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12
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
by Jonathan Parshall
574 members
17 reviews
½ 4.7
2 Members
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Dreadnought : Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
by Robert K. Massie
1,910 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon
by David Cordingly
277 members
1 review
4.1
2 Members
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Sink the Bismarck!
by C. S. Forester
411 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
by Arthur Herman
868 members
5 reviews
4
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17
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
by N. A. M. Rodger
422 members
1 review
4
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18
The Battle of Jutland
by Holloway H. Frost
32 members
1 review
3.8
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At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century
by Ronald H. Spector
245 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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20
The Life of Captain James Cook
by J. C. Beaglehole
168 members
4
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945
by Evan Thomas
725 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
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22
The War for All the Oceans From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
by Roy Adkins
357 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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24
Samuel Pepys: The Saviour of the Navy
by Arthur Bryant
151 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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John_Vaughan
25
Captain Cook: A Legacy Under Fire
by Vanessa Collingridge
119 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
26
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
by Gordon W. Prange
1,525 members
16 reviews
4.1
Member
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28
The Journals of Captain Cook
by Captain James Cook
390 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
30
Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship
by Richard Hough
87 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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31
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by Caroline Alexander
1,677 members
35 reviews
3.9
Member
John_Vaughan
32
Destroyers at war
by Gregory Haines
27 members
2.8
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34
Operation Drumbeat
by Michael Gannon
294 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
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35
U-Boat Killer: Fighting the U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic
by Donald G. F. W Macintyre
123 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
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36
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945
by Paul S. Dull
262 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
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37
Gunboat!: Small Ships at War
by Bryan Perrett
48 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
John_Vaughan
38
Band of Brothers: Boy Seamen in the Royal Navy, 1800-1956
by David Phillipson
21 members
3.8
Member
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39
History of the U.S. Navy (Volume 1)
by Robert W. Love, Jr.
39 members
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History of the U.S. Navy (Volume 2)
by Robert W. Love, Jr.
34 members