| 2025 | Bertrand, H. Napoleon at St. Helena: Memoirs of Gen. Bertrand, Marshal of the Palace, January to May 1821. London: Cassell, 1953, xxviii, 292 pp. |
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| 2026 | Besant, Walter. Captain Cook. English Men of Action Series. London: Macmillan, 1890, 1894, vi, 191 pp. Sir Walter Besant, 1836-1901. |
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| 2027 | Besant, Walter & Rice, James. 'Twas in Trafalgar Bay: And Other Stories. New York: 1873 Press, 1879, 1888,, 2000, 1 sheet. Nautical fiction; song in 3 verses. |
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| 2028 | Bessinger, Jess B. & Magoun, Francis P., Jr. "The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: A Chronological Bibliography." 2 parts. Speculum, 29 & 33 (1954 & 1958): 116-24 & 515-22. |
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| 2029 | Besson, Patrick. La Titanic: Roman. Monaco: du Rocher, 1999, 172 pp. RMS Titanic. |
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| 2030 | Best, Antony. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936-1941. London: Routledge, 1995, xii, 260 pp. For London School of Economics; road to Pacific War not through Pearl Harbor but through Singapore; conclusion: Churchill could not have known of Japanese attack. |
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| 2031 | Best, Antony. British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, xiii, 269 pp. |
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| 2032 | Best, Antony. "The 'Ghost' of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance: An Examination into Historical Myth-Making." HJ, 49 (September 2006): 811-32. Alliance ended in 1921. |
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| 2033 | Best, Antony. "The Road to Anglo-Japanese Confrontation, 1931-1941." See I. Nish, History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, II., pp. 26-50. |
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| 2034 | Best, Cedric M. Project: Master Mariner. Lewes: Book Guild, vi, 183 pp. Interwar period. |
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| 2035 | Best, Elsdon. Polynesian Voyagers: The Maori as a Deep-Sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer. Wellington: GPO; Wellington: Dominion Museum, 1923, 1954, 1975, 54 pp. |
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| 2036 | Best, Geoffrey. Churchill: a Study in Greatness. London: Hambledon, 2001, 370 pp. First Lord, twice; authoritative & readable. |
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| 2037 | Best, Geoffrey. Churchill and War. London: Hambledon, 2005, 353 pp. Not a biography; origin of his understanding of war. |
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| 2038 | Best, George. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, AD 1576-1578. 2 vols. London: Argonaut; Amsterdam: Israel; New York: Franklin, 1938, 1963, 1971, cxxxvi, 459 pp. Folio; ed: Vilhljalmur Stefansson; Frobisher, 1535-1594. |
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| 2039 | Best, Nicholas. Trafalgar: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sea Battle in History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, xix, 344 pp. Minute-by-minute chronology; bicentennial. |
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| 2040 | Bethell, John P., ed. John P. Bethell Watercraft Information Resource Project. In progress; sponsored by SNR; electronic database of bibliographies of terms; watercraft of the world; c. 12,000 items; in 2008 Resource deposited with NMM, Cornwall. |
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| 2041 | Bethell, John P., ed. The Mariner's Mirror on CD-Rom, 1911-2000. Journal of the Society for Nautical Research. Box set of 5 CDs. London: Chatham, 2001, 45,000 pp. 11,000 articles, 2000 illustrations; search facility & internal reference links. |
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| 2042 | Bethell, Leslie M. The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question, 1807-1869. London: Cambridge UP, 1970, 424 pp. Slave Trade to Brazil continued on large scale, e.g., half-million after 1830; 1840-1880: British captured 400 vessels; patrols of RN. |
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| 2043 | Bethell, Leslie M. "Britain, Portugal and the Suppression of the Brazilian Slave Trade: The Origins of Lord Palmerston's Act of 1839." EnHR, 80 (October 1965): 761-84. |
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| 2044 | Bethell, Leslie M. "The Decline and Fall of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil." TRHS, 6 ser, 1 (1990): 71-88. |
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