With the French about to attack British India, Captain Mainwaring is sent to scout out the situation in his forty-four-gun man-o-war and ends up instead defeating the entire French fleet

In 1742, colonial American seafarer Admiral Edward Mainwaring is called on to defend the Royal British Navy against French and Spanish fleets at Toulon Harbor, a difficult test of his strategic acumen and swashbuckling skills

Product Description: BOOK TWO IN THE MAINWARING SAGA It is 1741 — two years since Edward Mainwaring, the young American lieutenant in the Royal Navy, sprang to fame in the action at Porto Bello described in Royal Yankee. Now he has been ordered back to the Caribbean, in command of a sloop-of-war, and uppermost in his mind is the thought of a reunion with Anne Brixham, the beautiful planter's daughter who fought beside him in his earlier adventure...read more

Product Description: THE MAINWARING SAGA BEGINS Between 1739 and 1748, Britain fought the Spanish and then the French, their fleets and armies clashing in almost every theater of war from America to the Indian Ocean and the battlefields of Europe. Royal Yankee introduces Edward Mainwaring, a young seafarer destined to be caught up in this war - in its violent combat, its rough camaraderie, its acts of courage, and its feats of strategy...read more

Paul Gallant, now Captaine de fregate in the navy of Louis XV, is assigned to escort a convoy of ships from Martinique to France bearing the King's favorite cousin, Marianne, the Marquise de Bezy

Poised for action on the eve of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, a U.S. navy fighter's crew witnesses the power of an unheard-of weapon, the key to a Soviet-Iraqi conspiracy. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: Marine and maritime paintings portraying battles between the British and American navies on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812-1814.This book marks the sesquicentennial of the War of 1812 by reproducing Peter Rindlisbacher's celebrated marine paintings...read more

Product Description: Canada has the longest coastline of any nation on earth, together with the world's largest lake and river system. In fact, bounded on three sides by oceans, and with a lake and river system that crosses the entire country east to west, Canada can be thought of as an island nation...read more

Product Description: Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the flintlock battlefields of North America and on to the luch islands of the South Pacific...read more

Product Description: It was by far the bloodiest, most dramatic, and longest-running war to take place on Canadian soil. Full of acts of great folly and great courage, and marked by the actions of larger-than-life characters, such as General Isaac Brock and Tecumseh, it left Canadians and Americans with a clearer sense of who they were – or who they were not...read more

Product Description: To Go Upon Discovery begins with Cook's arrival in Canada in 1758 and ends with his appointment to take Endeavour to the South Pacific. In between these dates, we witness the siege of Louisbourg during the Seven Years' War, where Cook made his almost accidental discovery of the surveying techniques that distinguished him and gave him a prominent place in history...read more

Gathers stories from the early explorers of New France, Loyalists in the American Revolution, the Northwest Rebellion, the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, and peace-keeping efforts with the U.N.

Threatened by British pursuit, Paul Gallant sails to France to ask for reinforcements for the French-Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, in an adventure set in 1745 during the French-British conflict over the New World