Betrayal, the thirteenth book in Julian Stockwin’s series about Thomas Kydd (A Kydd Sea Adventure), is set in 1806. Captain Kydd, with his beloved frigate L’Aurore, is stationed in Cape Town, which he took part in the capture of as chronicled…
Conquest is the twelfth novel in Julian Stockwin’s excellent naval fiction series about Thomas Kydd, set in the Napoleonic age. This is a very interesting navy fiction series. First, it is very well researched and historically quite accurate. Second, the author knows the…
Victory, the latest installment in the Thomas Kydd series, brings us to the epic Battle of Trafalgar and the events leading up to it. Napoleon has amassed a huge invasion army and wants to take his troops across the Channel…
It’s now 1803 and Thomas Kydd, who started his career as a pressed man, now commands a brig-sloop, HMS Teazer. This is an unrated vessel too small to have a place in the line of battle. For Kydd, it, even so, represents…
Thomas Kydd has again claimed the helm of his beloved sloop-of-war, HMS Teazer. With him is his old friend Nicholas Renzi. After engaging in some heavy sea action Kydd, a former rakish corsair, is assigned to join in the coastal defenses…
Command is the seventh book of the very interesting Kydd series by Julian Stockwin. Very unexpectedly, Thomas Kydd is appointed Commander and master of his own brig-sloop Teazer (16-gun). However, the sloop isfar from ready for sea, and Kydd must race against the clock…
This is the sixth book in the Thomas Kydd series by Julian Stockwin. It is probably the best so far, and the most action-filled as well. The year is 1803, and once again tensions are escalating between England and France. While the…
