Robert Challoner (1924-1986) wrote a series of three novels set in the Napoleonic era about the adventures of Commander Lord Charles Oakshott. There is no known buigraphical information on him other than one reference which indicates he may have lived in Bath.

AOS Naval Fiction

Series: Commander Lord Charles Oakshott
Year Book Comment
  Run Out the Guns Commander Lord Charles Oakshott sallies forth to war facing three enemies.
  Give Fire! Oakshott is assigned to carry a special British envoy aboard the sloop Daisy to Mameluke Egypt
  Into Battle  Oakshott is imprisoned in Russia but escapes in time to serve at the Battle of Copenhagen

AOS Other Nautical Fiction

Series: n/a
Year  Book  Comment
  Jamaica Passage A thrilling sea saga set in the times of the slave trade 

 

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