Episode 1 of Naval History Podcast is going live!
This episode is Copyright © 2014 by Historical Research and Consulting LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Special thanks to Farley Anderson, Lewis King, and Charles Richardson.

“Pirate Ship at Bay” sample courtesy of CGEffex, taken from www.freesound.org

“Diving with whales” sample courtesy of KEVOY, taken from www.freesound.org

“Three Bells, Ship Time” sample courtesy of Benboncan, taken from www.freesound.org

Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

• William Brinkley. The Last Ship: A Novel. New York: Viking, 1988.
• J. F. C. Fuller. A Military History of the Western World. Volume 1. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1954.
• Colin S. Gray and Roger W. Barnett, eds. Seapower and Strategy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
• H. J. Mackinder. “The Geographical Pivot of History.” 23 Geographical Journal 421 (April 1904).
• Alfred Thayer Mahan. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1890.
• William Manchester. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983.
• Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford University Press (December 31, 1965)
• Clark G. Reynolds. Command of the Sea: The History and Strategy of Maritime Empires. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1974.
• William Ledyard Rodgers. Greek and Roman Naval Warfare: A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1937.
• Ian Speller, “Naval Warfare,” in David Jordan et al., Understanding Modern Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Nicholas John Spykman. The Geography of the Peace. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944.

All the water of Earth collected together. http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html

Earth as a water planet: A view of Earth centered approximately on Tahiti.

Mackinder’s Heartland Theory: “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.”

This episode is Copyright © 2017 by Historical Research and Consulting LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Some of the works referenced in this podcast include

• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Book 13.
• Marc G. de Santis, A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC. Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword Maritime 2017.
• John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking, 2009.
• Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: Random House, 2005.
• Donald Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
• Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War. New York: Viking, 2003 (a one-volume version of his earlier tetralogy.
• Lawrence A. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
• Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans. New York: Modern Library, 2001. (The life of Alcibiades is the most important one here.)
• William Ledyard Rodgers. Greek and Roman Naval Warfare A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.). 3rd ed. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1986.
• Thucydides. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War. New York: Free Press, 1996.
• Xenophon, John Marincola, and Robert B. Strassler. The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika: A New Translation. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009.

Anatolia/Asia Minor during the Decelean War

The Hellespont

The Battle of Cynossema

Cyzicus

Notium

Lesbos and the Arginusae Islands

The Arginusae Islands

The Battle of Arginusae: Initial fleet dispositions and approach

The Battle of Arginusae: Contact