Black Powder War
2008 • 400 pages

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Average rating3.7

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War, the sole province where the human race is at it's best, from the least reason, the beauty of Helen, to territory/land........

I have forgotten that the setting of this particular world, the Napoleonic Wars, wherein Britain was facing war in two fronts, the new world(America) and the French, against one of the greatest tactician ever known and unsurpassed in the whole world, according to their generation, I was so enamored with how the Chinese treat their Dragons, that I was reminded again, when they were flying out off China, a sad reality, during those times, wherein in boys are already allocated to the war front, those were the times, where hard labor was much needed, boys as young as 10, who should be idling away their time, are forced to shape up and become a man, even as I read through the novel, I would remember histories gone by, the British Empire, the Chinese Empire, the Spanish Armada, the conflict waged, for land and wealth, mirroring the novel, war, truly man's invention, the justifications of each empire, add to this the fantastical creature known as Dragons, their naiveness, the growing realization of being used and hoping for some reforms...........

A splendid, historical drama of the war fought by Man, entangling one of the most fearsome imaginative creature of all time, Man and Dragon, ware those who would combat them........

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