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81) The fireship
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Having obtained a position on the Glatton, Richard Delancey is soon to see action in the Battle of Camperdown. But the Nore and Spithead mutinies intervene to upset the course of his career.
82) Crucible of gold
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 7
Pub. Date
2013, ℗♭2012
Description
Continues the fantastical Napoleonic War experiences of Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, who travel to South America to negotiate with the Incas as part of a plan to stop the Emperor's campaign for world domination.
83) The men who lost America: British leadership, the American Revolution, and the fate of the empire
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers...
84) Empire of ivory
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The final adventure in the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series. The deadly campaign in Russia has cost both Napoleon and those allied against him. Napoleon has been denied his victory...but at a terrible price. Lawrence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the fleeing French army back west, but are demoralized when Napoleon makes it back to Paris unscathed. Worse, they soon learn that the French have stolen Termeraire and Iskierka's egg. Now,...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 13
Pub. Date
c1982
Description
Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 8
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Richard Sharpe, fresh from his heroic adventures in India, faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a fearsome French warship. With the help of a captain in the Royal Navy, Sharpe learns the French ship carries a treaty that could ignite renewed hostilities against the British in India. Now a fateful rendezvous is waiting in the waters off Cadiz.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 7
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Novik's beloved series returns, with Capt. Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon's forces and the friendly--and sometimes not-so-friendly--fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason.
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Presents the unfinished manuscript of Forester's historical adventure in which Hornblower, on the verge of securing his first post as captain, finds himself fighting alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial; and includes the author's notes regarding the novel's conclusion, as well as two additional Hornblower stories.
95) Sharpe's gold
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
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Description
Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission to recover a treasure hidden behind enemy lines that is vital to the success of the war. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader, feared by ally and enemy alike. But Sharpe's fiercest battles lie with the British officers, ignorant of his deadly secret and mistrustful of his ruthless methods.
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Aurelia Farnham believes she is happy living in London's stylish Cavendish Square. But with her friends Livia and Cornelia both married now, Aurelia is the only one still husbandless, and sometimes she longs for more. Then Colonel Sir Greville Falconer storms into her life, delivering a letter from her late husband, a war hero, which reveals he was a spy -- the colonel's spy. Now Greville needs Aurelia to continue the patriotic mission and partner...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
"Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned his attention to a very different hero. Brigadier Etienne Gerard is an officer in Napoleon's army - recklessly brave, engagingly open-hearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. Conan Doyle's wonderful stories about the Brigadier - all of which are collected here - are as funny as they are hair-raising, and the Brigadier himself has long...