{"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.", "covers": [8191809, 6876754, 6877865, 7587338, 10449630, 10792511, 11204561, 11942576], "key": "/works/OL5846671W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1434553A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "title": "His Majesty's Dragon", "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"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T18:04:08.916485"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-25T20:19:22.870169"}}