1877 and the Russo-Turkish War is reaching its climax.
It is in this world of change and uncertainty that Nicholas Dawlish, always resourceful, sometimes ruthless, occasionally self-doubting, must co.
But force alone was often inappropriate and conflicts had often to be resolved by guile and by proxy.
Britain\'s ability to project force rapidly and decisively on a global scale was assured by a Royal Navy that was in transition as new technologies emerged at an unprecedented rate.
In this period old enemies were still a threat, new players were joining the ranks of the Great Powers, and the potential for local conflict to escalate into general war - even world war - was never absent.
The Dawlish Chronicles series, which commences with Britannia\'s Wolf, is in the great tradition of the Napoleonic-era naval fiction of Forester, Kent, O\'Brian and Pope, but is set in the late nineteenth-century, as Britain\'s Empire approached its apogee.
Further books will accompany Dawlish further on that voyage into the future...
Dawlish joined as a boy a Royal Navy still commanded by veterans of Trafalgar but will he will help forge the Dreadnought navy of Jutland and the Great War.
Britannia\'s Wolf introduces a naval hero who is more familiar with steam, breech-loaders and torpedoes than with sails, carronades and broadsides.
Not for his own sake, and not for hers...
And in the midst of this chaos, unwillingly and unexpectedly, Dawlish finds himself drawn to a woman whom he believes he should not love.
In the depths of a savage winter, as Turkish forces face defeat on all fronts, Dawlish confronts enemy ironclads, Cossack lances and merciless Kurdish irregulars and finds himself a pawn in the rivalry of the Sultan\'s half-brothers for control of the collapsing empire.
To protect them an ambitious British naval officer, Nicholas Dawlish, is assigned to the Ottoman Navy to ravage Russian supply-lines in the Black Sea.
A Russian victory will pose a threat for Britain\'s strategic interests. 1877 and the Russo-Turkish War is reaching its climax
