Title: His Majesty's Dragon
Description: 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: Ship captains, Officers, Dragons, Fantasy, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Great Britain, Fiction, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Armed Forces, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, war & military, Military life, Human-animal communication, Battles, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12