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Title: Never Sound Retreat (The Lost Regiment Series , No 6) by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0-451-45466-9 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another good release in this series!
Comment: This is the sixth installment of the series. Haark is back ain as the evil Bantag leader. In the previous book, he had arrived through one of the "tunnels of light" from a world that is roughly 100 years ahead of Civil War era Earth. He is aware of many advanced technologies...
The humans are still struggling to throw off the bonds of the Bantag and the Merki. The Merki are licking their wounds to the West and appear to be out of the war for the time being. However, the Bantag have been sitting in the Chin cities for two years developing new weapons and training in tactics under Haark.
When the strike finally comes, the humans are ill prepared to counter it. It is one retreat after another. Of the three large human armies, two are cut off and surrounded. Hans with an army of over 50,000 is stranded the farthest away. Over 200 miles to the coast and 500 miles to the nearest human city. Keane and O'Donnal are stranded to the south near the Great sea with an army of around 40,000 including several thousand wounded in the opening battle.
The third army, under Hawethorne, is held in reserve. It numbers around 80,000.
Hans decides to retreat towards the sea instead of back to the city. His retreat is across open steppe. His orders to the soldiers are walk or die. Wounded are left behind with a weapon and ammo.
New weapons are introduced by both sides in this conflict. Haark comes up with winged flyers, mortars, and land ironclads. The humans come up with faster and more menueverable flyers, armor piercing artillery rounds, and a secret weapon at the end....
This is a book on a grand scale. Several large, continuous battles. Not as fast paced as previous books, but it sets the groundwork for the next book which should be very action packed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Long on Battles, Short on Story
Comment: Although this series is interesting enough for me to go out and buy all the volumes, I'm getting tired of reading one battle scene after another. It seems that if you open the book at random, pretty much any page you turn to has fighting on it. And I'd like more maps, please. Without maps and diagrams I find it pretty meaningless to read a battle description. It's getting predictable, too: just when ALL is lost for the humans, some super-human effort is made, and they triumph. I would like to read more about the characters, what they do when they're not fighting, for example. Also, I'd like to know more about the effects on the social organizations of the Cartha and the Roums of having made contact with such a vastly different social paradigm as the Yankees represent. I wonder if it's a male/female thing; I notice that most of the reviewers give all the books in the series 5 stars, and I get the impression that these reviewers are all men.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good transition.
Comment: Tanks and machine guns. Ha'ark has been forced to attack the Republic before he was absolutely ready, but the Republic buckles under pressure. This time both armies are modern and their leaders understand modern war. Also, expect the unexpected from Hans, who will turn the tide once more. A very interesting aspect of the series is how fallible Keane is. He inspires his people, but makes terrible mistakes that must be payed for with lots of blood later on. This destroys him little by little. Forstchen manages to make him very human, very far from a legend, and closer to what people really are. This book is transitional. Not as spectacular as those before, it still is very good and sets the stage for more to come. Also, a new major character is developed: the tank commander Timokin. And since Ferguson is dead, the technological edge that the Republic could always count on seems threatened. Read on.
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Title: Terrible Swift Sword by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451451376 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Union Forever by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451450604 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rally Cry by William R. Forstchen ISBN: 0451450078 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: 1633 by David Weber, Eric Flint, James Baen ISBN: 0743471555 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: 1632 by Eric Flint ISBN: 0671319728 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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