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Anderson, Poul
ENSIGN FLANDRY
book-date: 1966
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Lancer
1967
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Paperback
Jack Faragasso
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Ensign Flandry by Poul Anderson - first by chronology in the subset of his "Polesotechnic League" future history that features Dominic Flandry. A short version appeared in Amazing October 1966.

It has been a long time since I read my copy of this, so here's the flap copy from a hardcover for plot summary:
Nineteen-year-old Dominic Flandy, fresh out of the Naval Academy and an ensign in the Imperial Naval Flight Corps, has a problem. A spy for the Empire has succeeded in stealing vital information from Merseian files and passing it on to Flandry, information that would reveal the reptilian greenskin's plans to overcome their enemy, Terra. But it is only a mysterious set of numbers, and Flandry has to solve their meaning quickly - to save his neck and that of the Empire - under a serious handicap: he is fleeing from the Merseians, who have discovered the burglary, and from his own Terran superiors, who have charged him with high treason, desertion, and kidnapping. In the course of the novel, Flandry romps through furious battles with the Merseians, travels to the underwater dwelling place of the Sea-trolls, where he discovers that the world of the enemy is a beautiful and fascinating one, and learns with bitterness that struggles between great powers often involve a shocking alteration of idealistic principles...