Navy fiction is a great and very entertaining way to learn about important historical events and people, and serve to increase readers’ understanding of the past and the people that took part in building the present.
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Description: As a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian navy during World War I, Ottokar Prohaska is assigned temporarily to the Flying Service where he must increase the squadron’s miles flown and deliver love letters to a general’s wife.
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Description: The adventures of Lieutenant Markham, a soldier in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. He takes part in the defense of Toulon, one of the attackers being an artillery officer by the name of Napoleon.
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Description: Intrigue, avarice, danger and the deadly charms of a beautiful woman intermingle with a murder investigation in Genoa in which Harry Ludlow finds himself mired.
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Description: Horatio Hornblower commences his career in the Royal Navy as an inexperienced midshipman in January 1794. Through a series of challenges and adventures both in and out of combat, Hornblower discovers he is actually talented in both seamanship and leadership.
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Description: In late May 1916, young Nicholas Everard and his compatriots take part in the epic battle of Jutland against the German High Sea Fleet in the icy North Sea.
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Description: Fleeing the horrors of the Civil War by deserting, Brendan Kane joins the crew of the Narthex, an oddly shaped vessel, unaware that the ship’s intended destination is a mythic temperate paradise in the heart of the Arctic ice.
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Description: Admiral Richard Bolitho leads a new squadron of ships to the Mediterranean while his French adversary, Rear Admiral Jobert, follows.
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Description: Alan Lewrie, although unhappy with the Royal Navy in the sequel to The King’s Coat, gains a sense of duty as he participates in the American Revolution.
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Description: When the head of the CIA asks him to spend a little time in Cuba, the Rogue Warrior finds there’s no way to say no. He must find out the nature of a little “surprise” and thwart it before Castro kicks the bucket.
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Description: The Stafford family sends its sons to sea and battles the Parrish family’s desire to recover their Annapolis home, lost to the Staffords during the Revolution.
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Description: Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves the Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbreak of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle.
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Description: With the outbreak of the Civil War, New Yorker Eli Eaker enlists in the Union Navy against his father’s wishes and joins the crew of Captain Parker Bucyrus Trezevant, who is sailing south to help protect Fort Sumter.
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Description: Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a sea monster, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin.
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Description: Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker, is pressed into service in 1793 and sent to serve aboard the British Navy’s Duke William at the height of conflict during the Napoleonic Wars.
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