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Title: Terrible Swift Sword by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0-451-45137-6 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of a series
Comment: I have read the whole "missing regiment" series. It's good, addictive and very, very thorough and realistic. Some people may be shocked by the cruelty of some scenes, but the books try to show part of what a conflict is.
You will have to read most or all the books in the series to really appreciate it. Pity that for now Mr. Forstchen has interrupted this series.
Rating: 4
Summary: "Awesome Story; The Characters Really Come To Life"
Comment: This is the first book I have read in "The Lost Regiment" series. I've had this on my to read list for quite some time and now must ask myself "why did I wait so long?" Forstchen did an excellent job making these characters flesh and blood people you come to care about. Many of them are either beaten down by 8 years of fighting Rebs and the Horde, or have actually come to love war. While Col. Keane seems a clone of real-life Maine Col. Joshua Chamberlain of Gettysburg fame, I did like the self-doubt that kept cropping up in him throughout the war. It made him more of a real person instead of some super leader-type. Still he goes out and does his job, even though he has to do some very unpleasant things that will eat at his soul forever. You also really felt the sense of desperation of the humans as the Horde keeps winning one battle after another, threatening the civiliaztion they worked so hard to build. Very good battle scenes, especially the dogfight between the human and Horde airships. I definitely want to read more of "The Lost Regiment" series.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent installment in this series.... 4.5 Stars
Comment: This was a good follow up to the first two. Once again, the humans are at war. This time against a more maodern army using gunpowder and flying ships.
Forstchen does a very good job in keeping the reader interested. Apparently, the aliens of this worl at one time were a very advanced space-faring race. Something dramatic happened to them many thousands of years ago to push them back to their current state as nomadic warriors. Forstchen hints around at the incredible machinery that they used to have. At one point, the Merki come up with an engine that they dug out of one of the graves of the "ancients". Apparently some kind of nuclear reactor. Several Merki die as a result of harnessing the engine...
Anyway, the Merki are a band of warriors that are triple the size of the previous Tugar. And, they are using similar weapons to what the humans have. The Merki can field between 350,000 and 500,000 soldiers. They do have a fault. They do not believe that fighting humans is dignified. Or that using these new human weapons is glorious.
This is an excellent book with a surprise ending. It leaves you wanting to immediately go on to the 4th in the series. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the 4th... Yet.
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Title: A Band of Brothers (Lost Regiment, 7) by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451457056 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Never Sound Retreat (The Lost Regiment Series , No 6) by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451454669 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Battle Hymn by R. William Forstchen, William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451452860 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Down to the Sea: A Novel of Lost Regiment by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451458060 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 12 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Men of War by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451457706 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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