Dawlish Chronicles

This isn't directly relevant to the Dawlish Chronicles period but to that which followed and it's worth noting nonetheless. Ins...

When thinking oneself back into the Age of Mercantile Sail – which lasted up to WW2 – it is hard to imagine just what a menace was represen...

In “Britannia’s Wolf” , first book in my “Dawlish Chronicles” series, a key role is played by the heavily-armed Ottoman Turkish coast defe...

The Kingdom of the Netherlands was at peace in Europe from 1830 until 1940, and faced little external threat for much of this time. Until t...

My name is Antoine Vanner and I write naval fiction set in the period 1859 to 1918. As such I'm dealing with a period of very rapid tech...