With The Valiant Sailors, Stuart introduces her 8-volume series, which presents an exciting and authentic picture of naval operations during the Crimean War.
V. A. Stuart wrote several military fiction series and numerous other novels under various pseudonyms. Her settings span history and the globe, from the Napoleonic Wars of Europe to India under the British Raj. Born in 1914, she was in Burma with the British Fourteenth Army, became a lieutenant, and was decorated with the Burma Star and the Pacific Star.