A Hymn Before Battle
With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans -- for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!
With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans -- for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671318413 (0671318411)
Publish date: October 2nd 2001
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Series: Posleen War (#1)
This book is set mostly in the early 2000s but it's a world that has found out that aliens exist and you better start fighting them. Battle after battle is detailed in the book. I wish I could have found out more about the soldiers at home. Very good book.
I have generally liked the works of John Ringo so far. This one I didn’t really like. The story seemed quite interesting. First contact, Earth is enlisted to help defend the peaceful races of the galaxy, lots to learn, design new weapons etc. Sounded good to me.Well it all slowly turns into a bloody...
An excellent combat series. This guy can write realistic military fiction. He uses the jargon of the military forces with such accuracy, he must be a former soldier. His portrait of the SF mentality is spot-on. The book takes a bit to get going and the science is pretty much skipped over (interste...
An excellent combat series. This guy can write realistic military fiction. He uses the jargon of the military forces with such accuracy, he must be a former soldier. His portrait of the SF mentality is spot-on. The book takes a bit to get going and the science is pretty much skipped over (interste...
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