These are books mentioned in my lectures on-board Regent Navigator, January 8-February 6, 2018.
Expedition of Jean-Francoise de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse Books
Embassy to the Eastern Courts Books
The U.S. Navy’s Ex.Ex. Expedition Books
The Spanish American War Books
The Guns of August: World War I At Sea Books
Gallipoli and the Anzacs Books
Adak, the Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 Books
Maritime Chokepoints and Strategic Waters Books
In Harms Way Books
In Harms Way
War Plan Orange, Edward S. Miller
Bankrupting the Enemy, Edward S. Miller
Japan 1941, Eri Hotta
Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
Pacific Crucible, Ian W. Toll
The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll
Flights of Passage, Samuel Hynes
The Pacific War, John Costello
At Dawn We Slept, Gordon W. Prange
Miracle at Midway, Gordon W. Prange
Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley
Silent Victory, Clay Blair Jr.
The Thousand Mile War, Brian Garfield
Sunk Mochitsura Hashimoto
In Harm’s Way, Doug Stanton
Retribution, Max Hastings
Hell to Pay, D.M. Giangreco
The Cook Expeditions Books
The Cook Expeditions
The Command of the Ocean, N.A.M. Rodger
Captain Cook’s World, John Robson
The Life of Captain James Cook, J.C. Beaglehole
Blue Latitudes, Tony Horowitz
The Voyages of Captain James Cook, Nicholas Thomas, Editor
Joseph Banks: A Life, Patrick O’Brian
Sir Joseph Banks, H.B. Carter
The Theory of an Antipodal Southern Continent During the Sixteenth Century, James R. McClymont
Antipodes: In Search of A Southern Continent, Avan Judd Stalland
Great Southern Land, Michael Pearson
Hunt for the Southern Continent, James Cook
A Voyage Round the World, George Forster
European Vision and the South Pacific, Bernard Smith
Expedition of Jean-Francoise de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse Books
Expedition of Jean-Francoise de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse
Where Fate Beckons, John Dunmore
The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire 1713-1763, Paul W. Mapp
Battle for Empire, Tom Pocock
The Age of the Ship of the Line, Jonathan R. Dull
The French Navy and the Seven Years War, Jonathan R. Dull
Days of the French Revolution, Christopher Hibbert
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama
Bligh and the HMS Bounty Books
Bligh and the HMS Bounty
The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
Mr. Bligh’s Bad Language, Greg Dening
The Bounty Mutiny, William Bligh and Edward Christian
The Gathering Wind, Gregory A. Freeman
Lost Paradise, Kathy Marks
Embassy to the Eastern Courts Books
Embassy to the Eastern Courts
The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
When America First Met China, Eric Jay Dolin
A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein
American Lion, Jon Meacham
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Embassy to the Eastern Courts, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
The U.S. Navy’s Ex.Ex. Expedition Books
The U.S. Navy’s Ex.Ex. Expedition
Round About the Earth, Joyce E. Chaplin
The Sea and Civilization, Lincoln Paine
Ships of Discovery and Exploration, Lincoln Paine
Leviathan, Eric Jay Dolan
The War Against the Seals, Briton Cooper Busch
Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the Amethyst, Evabeth Miller Kienast (ed)
Mocha Dick, Cameron L Ferguson
Mocha Dick: The Legend and Fury, Brian J. Heinz
Voyage of tghe Southern Ocean, William Reynolds
Private Journal of William Reynolds, William Reynolds
The Shaping of American Ethnography, Barry Alan Joyce
Darwiniana, Asa Gray
The Great United States Exploring Expedition, William Stanton
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Stormy Voyager, Robert Silverberg
The Race to the White Continent, Alan Gurney
Twenty Years Before the Mast, Charles Erskine
Fountain of Discontent, Gordon Warren
The Trent Affair: An Historical Retrospect, Charles Francis Adams
Robert Louis Stevenson Books
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson, Claire Harman
Myself and the Other Fellows, Claire Harman
How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman
Brilliant Beacons, Eric Jay Dolin
Lighthouse Construction and Illumination, Thomas Stevenson
The Lighthouse Stevensons, Bella Bathurst
The Spanish American War Books
The Spanish American War
The Golden Empire, Hugh Thomas
Conquerors, Roger Crowley
Rivers of Gold, Hugh Thomas
Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
World Without End, Hugh Thomas
Railroaded, Richard White
The War with Spain in 1898, David F. Trask
Manila and Santiago, Jim Leeke
Empire by Default, Ivan Musicant
Bullets and Bacilli, Vincent J. Cirillo
The Philippine War 1899-1902, Brian McAllister Linn
King Leopold’s Soliloquy, Mark Twain
The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough
Empires in Collision Books
Empires in Collision
Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, Bruce Lincoln
Lords of the Horizon, Jason Goodwin
Napoleon III, A Life, Fenton Bresler
Victoria, the Queen, Julia Baird
The Making of Modern Japan, Maurius Jansen
The Tide at Sunrise, A History of the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, Denis Warner and Peggy Warner
Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, Julian S. Corbett
A Much Recorded War, Frederic Sharf
The Guns of August Books
The Guns of August
First World War, John Keegan
The Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark
Woodrow Wilson, John Milton Cooper Jr.
Castles of Steel, Robert K. Massie
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Max Hastings
From Imperial Splendor to Internment, Nicolas Wolz
1913 In Search of the World Before the Great War, Charles Emmerson
The War that Ended the Peace, Margaret MacMillian
Towards the Flame, Dominic Liever
Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
The Russian Origins of World War I, Sean McMeekin
Dead Wake, Eric Larson
The Deluge, Arthur Marwick
Over Here, David M. Kennedy
Gallipoli and the Anzacs Books
Gallipoli and the Anzacs
Gallipoli, Alan Moorehead
Gallipoli, Christopher Pugsley
The Anzac Experience, Christopher Pugsley
Gallipoli, Major Fred White Diary
Gallipoli, Peter Hart
Gallipoli, Peter Fitzsimons
Amelia Earhart Books
Amelia Earhart
The Fun of It, Amelia Earhart
Last Flight, Amelia Earhart
World Flight, Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, John Parlin
Amelia Earhart, the Mystery Solved, Marie K. Long and Elgen M. Long
Amelia Earhart, The Thrill of It, Susan Wels
Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, Thomas F. King and Randall Jacobson
Earhart Lives, Joe Klaas
The Search for Amelia Earhart, Fred Goerner
Why We Fought Part I Books
Why We Fought: Propaganda and World War II (Part 1)
Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton
Hitlerland, Andrew Nagorski
Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
Dietrich and Riefenstahl, Karin Wieland
The Man in the High Castle, Phillip K. Dick
Hell’s Foundation, Geoffrey Moorhouse
The War that Ended Peace, Margaret MacMillian
Catasrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Max Hastings
The Ottoman Endgame, Sean McMeekin
Speer: Hitler’s Architect, Martin Kitchen
The Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark
1913, Charles Emmerson
To Hell and Back, Ian Kershaw
The Russian Origins of the First World War, Sean McMeekin
Why We Fought Part II Books
Why We Fought: Propaganda and World War II (Part II)
Hell to Pay, D.M. Giangreco
Pacific Crucible, Ian W. Toll
The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll
Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45, Barbara W. Tuchman
American Caesar, William Manchester
Bankrupting the Enemy, Edward S. Miller
The Battle of Midway, Craig L. Symonds
In Command of History, David Reynolds
Japan 1941, Eri Hotta
Adak, the Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 Books
Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586
Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
Maritime Chokepoints and Strategic Waters Books
Maritime Chokepoints and Strategic Waters
The Middle Sea, John Julius Norwich
The Great Sea, David Abulafia
The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough
Pacific, Simon Winchester
The Mortal Sea, W. Jeffrey Bolster
Parting the Desert, Zachary Karabell
The Sea and Civilization, Lincoln Paine
Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
Gallipoli, Peter FitzSimons