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Empires of the Sea is the 2008 Sunday Times History Book of the Year. It has also been chosen as a best book of the year by the Economist, the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph and History Today.

Hear an interview with Lewis Lapham on Bloomberg radio about Empires of the Sea

December: watch Constantinople on the banks of the Bosphorushere!

10 August: Empires of the Sea is at #11 on The New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover non-fiction.

2 August: In the UK David Cameron puts Empires of the Sea on Conservative MPs summer reading list

John Julius Norwich's review of Empires of the Sea in the Wall Street Journal took it from #4000 to #12 on Amazon.com.

Read David J. Williams' blog about Empires of the Sea. Click here to read .

Empires of the Sea was the Sunday Times Summer Reading Top Choice for history.

Empires of the Sea was a Sunday Times You Really Must Read choice on 1 June.

I will be talking about Empires of the Sea at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 12 August.

Empires of the Sea was The Guardian book of the week on Saturday 10 May.