Books of the month

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The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan Dull, University of Nebraska Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8032-1930-4
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Age-of-the-Ship-of-the-Line,674030.aspx

Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation edited by Philip MacDougall, vol 154, the Navy Records Society, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6597-7
http://www.navyrecords.org.uk/volumes/wk105.htm
For non-members, the book is available at http://www.ashgate.com/Default.aspx?page=583, enter "Navy Records Society Publications" in the "series title" field.

Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake by Colin Pengelly, University Press of Florida, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8130-3313-6
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=PENGE001

Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812 by Donald Shomette, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8018-9122-9
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A new and enlarged edition of the 1981 book.

The Spanish Convoy of 1750: Heaven’s Hammer and International Diplomacy by Nicholas Rogers, University Press of Florida, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8130-3358-7
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=LEWIS005

Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Exploration by Andrew Lambert, Faber and Faber, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-5712-3160-7
http://www.faber.co.uk/work/franklin/9780571231607/

Gratefull to Providence: The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary and Man-Midwife 1775-1802. Volume
II: 1785-1802 edited by Martyn Beardsley and Nicholas Bennett, Boydell Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-9015-0385-5
The diary of the father of Matthew Flinders, the nineteenth-century explorer of Australia.
http://www.boydell.co.uk/01503851.htm