I've just started The Mammoth Book Of Eyewitness Naval Battles, by Richard Russel Lawrence.
It covers pretty much every major naval battle from the first ones, and goes all the way to the first Gulf War. The author isn't the best, and he actually makes quite a few errors (at least compared to others I've read), but reading Herodotus' report on the battle of Salamis, or Cassius Dio giving an eyewitness account of Actium is utterly fascinating.
Right now I'm in the middle of the Anglo-Dutch wars.
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