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