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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.
Che cos’è questo libro
Under the Red Dragon is a war novel by James Grant, a Scottish writer of the nineteenth century who built his career on military romances. He set this book in the Crimean War, fought from 1854 to 1856 between Russia on one side and Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire on the other. The red dragon of the title is the old emblem of Wales, and it points to the Welsh soldiers whose service the book honors.
Grant wrote for readers who loved adventure, regimental pride and the hope of a safe return. You get camp life, long marches, battle and the private feelings of men far from home, all set against a real campaign. Let us begin with the world the novel steps into.
In questo riassunto
- 1A war far from home beginsFree
- 2Love and duty pull in two directions
- 3The campaign tests every man's courage
- 4Honor, home and the way it is told
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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.
The title tells you where his sympathies lie. The red dragon stands for Wales, and for a body of men who carry their homeland's pride into a foreign campaign. From the start, the book treats a regiment as a kind of family, with its own loyalties, jokes and codes of honor.
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Questions about Sotto il Drago Rosso
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.
What was the Crimean War?
It was a conflict from 1854 to 1856 in which Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire fought Russia, mostly on the Crimean peninsula. Its battles included the Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, and the siege of Sevastopol.
Is Under the Red Dragon hard to read?
No. The book has an open, warm voice, and the narrator praises brave deeds plainly. It joins a love story to a real campaign, and scenes of camp and fighting alternate with scenes of feeling, so it is easy to start.