The Normandy Privateer: A thrilling naval adventure with Lieutenant Oliver Anson

England. 1800s. Young Lieutenant Oliver Anson has died.

His family install a memorial tablet in their church to commemorate his life and service to King and country. He led the mission to capture a French privateer in a small Normandy harbour, but when it all goes wrong, Anson is felled by a musket ball in the head and is among the dead and wounded left ashore after his shipmates seek the refuge of their ship HMS Phryne.

Only - and despite official newspaper reports to the contrary - the less...