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In 1877, the Russo-Turkish War is achieving its climax. A Russian triumph will cause a threat for Britain's strategic interests. To safeguard those pursuits, an ambitious United kingdom naval officer, Nicholas Dawlish, is allocated to the Ottoman Navy to ravage Russian source lines in the Black colored Sea. In the depths of your savage winter, as Turkish forces face defeat on all fronts, Dawlish confronts opponent ironclads, Cossack lances, and merciless Kurdish irregulars and finds himself a pawn in the rivalry of the Sultan's one half brothers for control of the collapsing empire. And amid this chaos, unwillingly and unexpectedly, Dawlish finds himself attracted to a woman whom he thinks he should not love. Not for his own sake, and not for hers.... Britannia's Wolf introduces a naval hero who's more acquainted with steam, breechloaders, and torpedoes than with sails, carronades, and broadsides. To be a boy Dawlish joined a Royal Navy still commanded by veterans of Trafalgar, but he will help forge the Dreadnought navy of Jutland and the fantastic War. Further books will come with Dawlish on that voyage in to the future.... The Dawlish Chronicles series, which commences with Britannia's Wolf, is within the great custom of the Napoleonic-era naval fiction of Forester, Kent, O'Brian, and Pope but is set in the later 19th century, as Britain's empire approached its apogee. In this period old enemies were still risks, new players were subscribing to the rates of the fantastic Forces, and the prospect of local conflict to escalate into general battle - even world battle - was never absent. Britain's capability to project power swiftly and decisively on a worldwide scale was reassured by the Royal Navy that was at change as new technology surfaced at an unprecedented rate. But power by itself was often improper, and issues often needed to be settled by guile and by proxy. It really is nowadays of change and doubt that Nicholas Dawlish, always resourceful, sometimes ruthless, occasionally self-doubting, must contend for the advancement and happiness he hungers for.
