His Majesty's Dragon
About this book
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future--and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France's own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte's boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.From the Paperback edition.
Subjects
- armed forces
- battles
- dragons
- fantasy
- fiction
- fiction, alternative history
- fiction, fantasy, historical
- fiction, war & military
- great britain
- great britain, fiction
- great britain. royal navy
- human-animal communication
- military life
- napoleonic wars, 1800-1815
- napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
- officers
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 9
- ship captains