A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman.
Well written history of major mutinies from the 16th Century to the present day, mostly British, but also US and other navies. Takes time to put the Bounty mutiny into its proper historical perspective.
I also recently read the same author's The Real Cruel Sea, an in depth history of the Battle of the Atlantic from the point of view of the merchant seaman. Excellent.
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
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