The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak includes 15 original and 6 classic stories, from pirateering along British and Hawaiian coasts, skirmishes in French and American ports to the famous sea battles of Trafalgar, Copenhagen and the Nile.

Edited by Mike Ashley and with an introduction by David Donachie.

Contents:

• Preface by Mike Ashley
• Introduction by David Donachie
• Deadly Transit by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• Nelson: First Blood by David Donachie (extract from "On a Making Tide")
• Special Duties by Derek Wilson
• Fountains of Resolve by Keith Taylor
• Davy Jones’s Locker by Harriet Hudson
• The Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois by William Hope Hodgson
• The Burning Deck by Peter T. Garratt
• Casabianca by Felicia Hemans (poem)
• The Trap by Kenneth Bulmer (extract from Treasure)
• The Revenge by Frederick Marryat (extract from The Privateersman)
• The Night Attack by Richard Woodman
• King George’s Free Traders by M. B. Warriss
• The Deserter by Guy N. Smith
• Nelson Expects by Nigel Brown
• The Knight Errant by Richard Butler
• The Revenge of the Gunner’s Daughter by Peter Tremayne
• The Gauntlet by Jane Jackson
• Hornblower and His Majesty by C. S. Forester
• Gunfire off Makapuu by Jacland Marmur
• The Guns of the Ghost by Charles Partington
• The Last Engagement by John Frizell
• Goodbye to His Master by Arthur Conan Doyle