25/11/2025
I’m glad to announce that Britannia’s Bluff, the 13th volume of the Dawlish Chronicles series will be published on December 6th in hard copy and Kindle. It can be enjoyed as part of the series or as a standalone story. Detail further below.
Preorder the Kindle version at 22% Discount, delivery to your phone, tablet or kindle on 6th December, when Hard Copy will also be available. Kindle Unlimited subscribers will be able to read at no extra cost.
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It’s November 1915: The Great War rages. Britain has failed to break through the Dardanelles Straits to open a supply route to its Russian allies. Over 80,000 allied troops are trapped in tiny footholds on the rocky Gallipoli peninsula. Weakened by disease and exposure, they are dominated by Turkish artillery and entrenchments on higher ground. Repeated attempts to advance have resulted in mounting casualties. Now, with winter looming, victory – at any cost – is unachievable.
But evacuation from the landing beaches could bring yet worse tragedy – bodies drifting in bloody surf, laden boats lashed by enemy fire as they strain towards the safety of allied ships moored in deeper water.
Admiral Sir Nicholas Dawlish, recalled from retirement on the outbreak of war, sees one chance – a colossal bluff – to reduce the risks of evacuation. Drawing on his half century’s experience of conflict, guile, new technology and outright daring, he plans a lightning diversionary campaign at sea, on land and by air. Speed and surprise will be the deciding factors.
As the Great War gathers momentum, new developments – submarines, radio, armoured vehicles, aircraft and ships to carry them to sea – are changing the rules and possibilities of warfare. Under Dawlish, ambitious and thrusting younger men will seize opportunities, and face threats, hitherto undreamed of.
But will it be in time to help prevent a final bloodbath at Gallipoli?
