Pretty much for the technicals, anything by Brian Lavery, David Lyon, Rif Winfield or Robert Gardiner are going to be heavy-hitters. If you can wade through sometimes confusing and contradictory material Jean Boudriot is a good source on the French (our Bonhomme Richard was based on his forensic reconstruction combined with my best-guess extrapolation of Jones's intended but unavailable-in-sufficient-quantity armament plan), and the various Osprey tomes by Angus Konstam and Mark Lardas are usually very good primers for helping find your "sea legs" before you sail off into the depths of Winfield.