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What holds a soldier steady when love calls him home and duty leads him into battle?
In Under the Red Dragon, James Grant brings a love story into the world of the Crimean War. British soldiers travel far from home to a country most have never imagined. Through camp life, long marches and battle, the novel follows the strain between private affection and the flag a soldier has sworn to follow.
The red dragon is the old emblem of Wales, and Grant honors the Welsh soldiers who serve beneath it. His warm, patriotic adventure places honor, loyalty to comrades and love of country beside the hope of a safe return. The campaign tests courage, but the pull of home gives the military story its personal stakes.
What you’ll discover
- Love against duty Follow a romance shaped by the competing claims of the heart and the colors.
- Life on campaign Enter a soldier's world of camp life, long marches and the dangers of battle.
- The Welsh connection Discover how the red dragon points to Welsh soldiers and pride in their service.
- Courage far from home Explore the bond between soldiers, their comrades and the places they leave behind.
- A warm Victorian adventure Experience a military romance where honor and affection matter as much as action.
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For readers who love Victorian adventure, military history told as fiction, and stories where duty and affection pull in different directions.
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- A war far from home begins
- Love and duty pull in two directions
- The campaign tests every man's courage
- Honor, home and the way it is told
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Unter dem Roten Drachen
by James Grant · 1872
Welsh soldiers face the Crimean War as love and duty pull in different directions and courage comes at a cost.
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A war far from home begins
The novel opens in the years when Britain drifted into war with Russia. The Crimean War was fought mainly on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea region, and it sent thousands of British soldiers on a long voyage to a country most of them had never imagined.
Grant knew how to give such a moment its weight. In his military fiction, the mood of departure matters as much as the fighting to come. Soldiers leave families, sweethearts and familiar hills behind, and the reader is asked to feel what is risked before a single shot is fired.
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What is Under the Red Dragon about?
It is a Victorian novel set in the Crimean War. It follows soldiers whose service is tied to the Welsh emblem of the red dragon, and it joins battlefield courage to questions of love, duty and honor.
Who wrote Under the Red Dragon?
James Grant, a Scottish author who died in 1887. He wrote many military novels and popular histories, and he aimed his work at a broad Victorian readership that loved adventure and regimental pride.
What does the red dragon in the title mean?
The red dragon is the traditional emblem of Wales. In this book it points to Welsh soldiers and the pride of a regiment, and it gives the story a single image for loyalty and home.
The author
James Grant
1822–1887 · Scottish historical novelist
James Grant was a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh in 1822. He wrote historical novels and books about military history. His first novel, The Romance of War, appeared in 1845. His other novels included Jane Seton and Under the Red Dragon. He died in London in 1887.
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