Mountbatten Maritime Award

WINNER

Barry Gough – Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon (Palgrave Macmillan)

NOMINEES

Paula Astridge – Bad Hand Fletcher Christian: The Last Piece of the Puzzle (Woodslane)
Patrick Barkham – Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore (Granta Books)
John Boyle – Blood Ransom: Stories from the Front Line in the War Against Somali Piracy (Adlard Coles Nautical)
Captain Eric Brown CBE DSC AFC FRAeS RN – Too Close for Comfort: One Man’s Close Encounters of the Terminal Kind (Blacker Limited)
Nick Bunker – An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America (Bodley Head – Random House)
Tim Carter – Merchant Seamen’s Health, 1860-1960: Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain (Boydell Press)
Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno Ciceri – Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea (Pluto Press)
Anthony J. Cumming – The Battle for Britain: Interservice Rivalry between the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, 1909-1940 (Naval Institute Press)
J. Ross Dancy – The Myth of the Press Gang: Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth Century (Boydell Press)
Steve R. Dunn – The Coward? The Rise and Fall of the Silver King (Book Guild Publishing)
Tad Fitch and Michael Poirier – Into the Danger Zone: Sea Crossings of the First World War (The History Press)
Tom Fort – Channel Shore: From the White Cliffs to Land’s End (Simon & Schuster UK)
Stewart Gordon – A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks (Oxbow Books)
Jerry Grayson – Rescue Pilot: Cheating the Sea (Adlard Coles Nautical)
David Gregory – The Lion and the Eagle – Volume Two The Antagonists 1914-1915 (Writersworld)
Edith Hall – Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind (Bodley Head – Random House)
Paul Heiney – One Wild Song: A Voyage in a Lost Son’s Wake (Bloomsbury)
Henry Hemming – Churchill’s Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy (Preface Publishing)
Sam Jefferson – Sea Fever: The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway (Adlard Coles Nautical)
Sam Jefferson – Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail: Races and Rivalries on the Nineteenth Century High Seas (Bloomsbury)
Charles W. Johnson – Ice Ship: The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram (Oxbow Books)
John Johnson-Allen – T E Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol: The Royal Navy’s Role in Creating the Legend (Pen and Sword Books)
Eric Kentley – Cutty Sark: The Last of the Tea Clippers (Conway Publishing)
Brian Lavery – Nelson’s Victory: 250 Years of War and Peace (Seaforth Publishing)
Rear Admiral C. H. Layman – The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas (Uniform Press)
Noel Malcolm – Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Allen Lane)
Rose Mitchell & Andrew Janes – Maps: Their Untold Stories – Map Treasures from The National Archives (Bloomsbury)
Roger Parkinson – Dreadnought: The Ship that Changed the World (I.B. Tauris)
Michael Pye – The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are (Penguin Books)
Nigel Rowe – Tall Ships Today: Their Remarkable Story (Adlard Coles Nautical)
Anthony Smith – The Old Man and the Sea: A True Story of Crossing the Atlantic by Raft (Little, Brown Book Group)
Lawrence Sondhaus – The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War (Cambridge University Press)
Martin Stephen – Scapegoat: The Death of Prince of Wales and Repulse (Pen and Sword Books)
Julian Stockwin – Pasha: A Thomas Kydd Novel (Hodder & Stoughton)