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1877 and the Russo-Turkish War is reaching its climax. A Russian victory will pose a threat for Britain’s strategic interests. 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. 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. And in the midst of this chaos, unwillingly and unexpectedly, Dawlish finds himself drawn to a woman whom he believes he should not love. Not for his own sake, and not for hers… Britannia’s Wolf introduces a naval hero who is more familiar with steam, breech-loaders and torpedoes than with sails, carronades and broadsides. 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. Further books will accompany Dawlish further on that voyage into the future… 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. 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. 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. But force alone was often inappropriate and conflicts had often to be resolved by guile and by proxy. It is in this world of change and uncertainty that Nicholas Dawlish, always resourceful, sometimes ruthless, occasionally self-doubting, must contend for the advancement and happiness he hungers for.
- Sales Rank: #1055027 in Books
- Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published on: 2013-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .74" w x 6.00" l, 1.21 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 326 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Antoine Vanner has survived military coups, a guerrilla war, storms at sea and life in mangrove swamps, tropical forest, offshore oil-platforms and the boardroom. He has lived and worked long-term in eight countries, has travelled widely in all continents except Antarctica and is fluent in three languages. He has a passion for nineteenth-century political and military history and has a deep understanding of what was the cutting-edge technology of the time. His knowledge of human nature and his first-hand experience of the locales – often surprising – of the most important conflicts of the period provide the impetus for his chronicling of the life of the Royal Navy officer Nicholas Dawlish. “I’m fascinated by the Victorian period,” Vanner says, “for not only was it one of colonial expansion and of Great Power rivalry that often came to the brink of war, but it was also one of unprecedented social, political, technological and scientific change. Britain’s power may have been at an apogee but it was under constant threat and would demand constant adaptation from those who aspired to shape events. Many born in the 1840s would not only play significant roles in the later decades of the century but be key players in the maelstrom that would engulf the world in 1914. The Dawlish Chronicles are set in that world of change, uncertainty and risk and they involve projection of naval power to meet complex social, political and diplomatic challenges.” Find out more on www.dawlishchronicles.com
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
The British Navy cruises on steam, not sails, in this Victorian-era series
By R. Moore
I read "Britannia's Wolf" and enjoyed it on several levels. First, and to my mind most importantly, I considered it a "good read," one that gave me enjoyment commensurate with the time invested. I'm a nautical genre fan, and have read many of the series set in at the peak of the age of sail and the conflicts between Britain and France in the 18th and early 19th centuries. As much as I love them, it was refreshing to begin a series that is set in a different time period and with different players (aside from Britain) in the Great Game of later 19th Century national rivalries and colonial imperialism. The battle scenes are vivid and showcase a different form of naval warfare from the exchange of volleys at a cable's length or closer of the wooden ship era, one that is inching closer to the long-distance duels of the early 20th Century. I particularly appreciated the way the author dealt with the rapidly evolving technology of the time, which was showcased particularly in the small arms, and more interesting to me (because I know less about them) the naval artillery, with muzzle-loaders still in use next to rapid-fire breechloaders.
Nicholas Dawlish is the British officer at the center of this novel which promises to be the first of a series chronicling a career that has been outlined in the author's mind. He is of his times, a Victorian, and American readers should bear with such traits as his then-proper concerns of class and place in matters of the heart. He is an embodiment of "stiff upper lip," but bears some internal conflicts which will help humanize him as the series continues. And he is ingenious and unrelenting in a fight, virtues that serve both him and the reader well when he's in conflict.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The best novel set during the Russian - Turkish war of 1877 that you will ever read!
By Michael S. Kraus
This novel is the first in Vanner's Dawlish Chronicles series. Like some historical novel series, we are introduced to the main character, not at the beginning of his career, but at a pivotal point in his life. Throughout this novel, the author leaves us clues about Dawlish's previous adventures.
Nicholas Dawlish has spent much of his life as an officer in the British Navy. Since he was not born into privilege, he has reached a point in his career when his prospects for advancement are few.
Now, Dawlish has left the British Navy and taken a commission in the Ottoman Empire's navy. The position pays twice his British Navy pay. Additionally, this commission will allow him to command a warship in battle. If he does well it may improve his chances for advancement if he should return to Britain.
The Ottoman Empire is at war with Russia. The Tsar wants to become a naval power in the Mediterranean Sea. Dawlish needs to use the meager Ottoman fleet to keep the Russians bottled up in the Black Sea. And he needs to disrupt the shipping that brings needed supplied to the advancing Russian Army.
Unfortunately, the Ottoman Empire is rife with religious and political intrigue. Although Dawlish has developed his navy into a dedicated group of sailors who would follow him into hell, he slowly realizes that his superiors are not to be trusted.
In the end, Dawlish and his sailors are fighting skirmishes on land as the Russian Army advances on Istanbul. If he and his men can delay the advancing Russians, the British Navy might take an interest and step in to stop the Russian onslaught.
And in the middle of the fighting, Dawlish needs to save Florence Morton, his love interest.
For me, I found the beginning of the novel slow going. The author uses a lot of Turkish words: place names, character names, military ranks, ship names, and some basic vocabulary. While this adds authenticity to the story, I found the plot a little hard to follow at first.
I liked Nicholas Dawlish. He is a realistic character who makes mistakes and has flaws.
I liked the battle scenes. They were exciting and well written.
For me, this novel was a good military fiction novel.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The Tom Clancy of historic naval fiction
By JD
Antoine Vanner is the Tom Clancy of historic naval fiction. This is a techno-thriller in the true Clancy nuts-and-bolts style, except that it is placed in the late nineteenth century, during the transition from sail to steam, instead of in the nuclear-powered present. Where the followers of C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian luxuriate in the crack and rattle of canvas, and the niceties of getting a wind-driven ship into battle, author Vanner revels in the throwing power of cannon, propulsive power of engines, and weight of armor plating. It is all very detailed, tremendously impressive, and very convincing.
The same depth of research has gone into the background of the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire. Vanner hurls his protagonist, Nicholas Dawlish, into the forefront of the bloodiest battles between the Christian Russian invaders and the Moslem Turks. While Britain is theoretically neutral, and the Turks are international lepers after the wholesale butchery of Bulgarian Christians, it is important to British commercial interests that the Russian Czar does not get the chance to dominate British trade routes by occupying Constantinople.
Therefore Dawlish, vulnerable because he so ambitious for advancement in the Royal Navy, is coerced into signing up with the Ottoman Navy. His mission: to seize a gunboat, and wreak havoc on the Russian supply lines in the Black Sea. After that, the action is hot and hectic, rather unusually spaced between the quarterdeck and the stokers in the lowest hold. Though they succeed in an unexpected way, the approach to the story provides an insight into Dawlish’s job, rank, and state of mind.
His mission then becomes rather unusual. He has to place the ironclad’s cannon on land, in the path of the Russian thrust on Istanbul. Once this appallingly difficult task carried out, he is impelled toward Plevna, where the Turks are making their last despairing stand, to rescue the woman he is coming to love, along with her misguided Nightingale-type mistress. He gets to her side, only to face overwhelming forces. Bloodshed—much bloodshed—follows. But, thankfully, while Vanner is describing a really brutal part of history, he does not wallow in violence. Intelligently, he leaves the worst of the atrocities to the reader’s imagination.
The major part of the story happens between December 1877, when Plevna falls, and the compact between the major powers that settled the war politically in March 1788. In between, is winter—a winter that is unimaginably brutal, and yet the writer makes the reader experience every detail of the horror. What this reader came out with is a huge admiration of the soldiers and seamen who underwent the ordeal, along with a contempt of the politicians who engineered it.
The motif throughout is Dawlish’s growing love affair. The social strictures surrounding it are authentic of the age, as anyone who has watched Downton Abbey will attest. The resolution is rather hastily engineered, however, which is the reason this review gets four stars rather than the five it really demands. The moment when Dawlish succumbs to his better feelings deserved more space. Otherwise, a hugely recommended book, particularly for technically minded maritime fiction fans, and anyone who was addicted to Clancy. Most unusually, I was so engrossed by the driving force of the story that I didn’t pause to hit google or even look up an encyclopedia to find out the background of what Vanner was describing so vividly.
Britannia’s Wolf, should be a bestseller, and it is an indictment of the traditional publishing world that it is an Indie book.
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