Burning Harbour

Britain is at war with Revolutionary France. Nicholas Cruwys is sent to the Mediterranean, where the Royal Navy has seized the great French naval base at Toulon. But the Republican army, commanded by a brilliant young artillery officer named Bonaparte, is closing in. As the siege tightens, Cruwys must fight not only to hold the harbour but to save the lives of thousands of Royalist refugees. Burning Harbour is a tense and dramatic account of one of the war's most desperate episodes — the fall of Toulon in 1793.