The Fighting Top Nautical literature - fiction and history - is but one part of a greater culture of the sea, which includes the work of artists, whose creations delight us with oil and watercolor paintings, fancy ropework, wood carvings, scrimshaw, and boat and ship building. The Fighting Top is an occasional journal offering a selection of writings, featuring ... more »in-depth interviews with authors and marine artists, as well as essays by novelists and naval historians on a variety of topics related to the sea. The inaugural issue features an in-depth interview with Douglas Reeman, who under his own name and the pen name Alexander Kent, is a father of modern naval fiction. Novelist and historian Richard Woodman writes about ?The Legacy of Trafalgar?, author Julian Stockwin describes ?My Debt to Maritime Art?, historian Steven Maffeo offers his view of ?Trafalgar?, and cover art features detail of English marine artist Geoffrey Huband?s ?Enemy in Sight?.« less