The following books are those that I have used information from, and I highly recommend these to anyone who is interested in knowing more about the pirates, privateers, and buccaneers or just piracy in general.
I also "pirated" the excellent flag images from the Microprose Pirates! Gold game manual and also constructed the animated flag images using the game's pcx files.
Cordingly, David (editor). Pirates - Terror On the High Seas
. North Dighton, MA: JG Press, Inc., 1998. (ISBN 1-57215-264-8)
Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag
. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995. (ISBN 0-15-600549-2)
Esquemeling, John. The Buccaneers of America
. Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1992 (reprint from 1684). (ISBN 0-87380-176-8)
Gosse, Philip. The Pirates' Who's Who
. Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, reprint from 1924. (ISBN 0-87380-165-2)
Gow, George F. and John H. Edmonds. The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730
. Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, reprint from 1923. (ISBN 0-87380-179-2)
Johnson, Capt. (also credited to Daniel Defoe). A General History of the Pyrates
. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1999 (ISBN 0-486-40488-9)
Konstam, Angus. Pirates!
. Great Britain: Osprey Publishing Limited, 1998. (ISBN 1-85532-837-2)
Lee, Robert E. Blackbeard the Pirate
. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1974. (ISBN 0-89587-032-0)
Platt, Richard. Pirate
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1994. (ISBN 0-679-87255-8)
Ritchie, Robert C. Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates
. Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1986. (ISBN 0-7607-0840-1)
