Foreign Legions
by David Drake
Lots of Soldiers Work for CiviliansThey don't Like,but these Romans had It Worsethan Most --Their Commanders wereBlue-Skinned Aliens! The guilds of star-traveling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than swords and bows.That was no handicap to merchant princes with a galaxy to scour for military slaves to do their fighting for them. Some came to Earth for soldiers and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer. For over two thousand years the aliens thought they'd succeeded brilliantly -- but then things changed!Set in the universe ofRanks of Bronze,masterful new novellas byDavid DrakeEric FlintS. M. StirlingMark L. Van Nameand David Weberexplore the bleeding edge between human courage and the science of alien slavemasters. The right man with a sword is just as deadly as a technician with a laser --And not all the blood spilled is red! YESTERDAY THEY WERE THE BESTINFANTRY ON EARTH-NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ON THEWHOLE GALAXY.
FictionScience FictionAction & AdventureSpace Opera
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERBaen Books
LENGTH308
LANGUAGEEN
The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background. Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina. http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/
Foreign Legions
by David Drake
Lots of Soldiers Work for CiviliansThey don't Like,but these Romans had It Worsethan Most --Their Commanders wereBlue-Skinned Aliens! The guilds of star-traveling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than swords and bows.That was no handicap to merchant princes with a galaxy to scour for military slaves to do their fighting for them. Some came to Earth for soldiers and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer. For over two thousand years the aliens thought they'd succeeded brilliantly -- but then things changed!Set in the universe ofRanks of Bronze,masterful new novellas byDavid DrakeEric FlintS. M. StirlingMark L. Van Nameand David Weberexplore the bleeding edge between human courage and the science of alien slavemasters. The right man with a sword is just as deadly as a technician with a laser --And not all the blood spilled is red! YESTERDAY THEY WERE THE BESTINFANTRY ON EARTH-NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ON THEWHOLE GALAXY.
FictionScience FictionAction & AdventureSpace Opera
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERBaen Books
LENGTH308
LANGUAGEEN
The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background. Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina. http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/
