Never Sound Retreat (The Lost Regiment Series , No 6)

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Summary: Loved the other six!! Waiting for no. seven!
Review: After spending long hours of reading Civil War history, it's fun to go away for awhile and spend some time in another world that is strange but yet familiar.
Marvelous concept, and very well written. The characters really do live on the other side of the tunnel!

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Summary: Long on Battles, Short on Story
Review: 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.

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Summary: So when's the next book!??!
Review: Another great book in this series. I found myself recommending the series yet again in a local store. One request to the author (hope he reads these!): Whenever he decides to end this series, I would LOVE to read a good postlogue about the world 100 years after the "Horde Wars" is over...I would really enjoy seeing what world they create after they defeat (which I'm sure they will!) the hordes. The technology would certainly be beyond where we are today since the wars pushed technological advancement faster than it went on earth...and of course there's that secret place at the pole where the lost horde technology exists...maybe a book about the search for that stuff??? Anyway, there's some ideas I'm sure we'd all love to read! That's all! -- Scott Will

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Summary: A totally new direction.
Review: Everytime before a new book comes out in this series I try to guess the next plot line. I knew the humans wouldn't have gotten away so easy. So I figured on everything from another modern set of humans (Confederates I planned), Horde rediscovery of ancient weapons, to different alien races would arise to challenge the 35th. But a new Horde leader is genius. But 1 criticism. I feel Forstchen is writing himself into a corner by allowing weaponry to advance too fast. He will lose the civil war theme soon by bringing in airplanes 45 years too soon. And why havent the humans adapted aerosteamer engines to land transport? And certainly at least some humans must have tried to rebel before? But all in all a good work. Please hurry and give a map also.

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Summary: A totally new direction.
Review: Everytime before a new book comes out in this series I try to guess the next plot line. I knew the humans wouldn't have gotten away so easy. So I figured on everything from another modern set of humans (Confederates I planned), Horde rediscovery of ancient weapons, to different alien races would arise to challenge the 35th. But a new Horde leader is genius. But 1 criticism. I feel Forstchen is writing himself into a corner by allowing weaponry to advance too fast. He will lose the civil war theme soon by bringing in airplanes 45 years too soon. And why havent the humans adapted aerosteamer engines to land transport? And certainly at least some humans must have tried to rebel before? But all in all a good work. Please hurry and give a map also.

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Summary: Edge of your seat
Review: I don't know. It took me almost a week to finish this book. I read the previous five in two or three days each. Okay, there are some new ideas, like the land ironclads or the airship wings, and another positive point is, that even the human main characters are not immortal. But I think there has to be something really new to give this series a new spark of life in the next book, because reading about grand battles in every book with almost the same opponents can grow boring after a time (five to six books). But apart from that, it is a fast-paced military adventure, that captivates even readers that are not american patriots. I would even give it the highest rating, but there are a few things that prevented it. Sometimes it is just too much action at too many locations. I got really confused at times and just read on without really grasping the whole of it. Then there are suddenly a bunch of colonels in the army, but according to the first five books, there is only one colonel, and that is Andrew Keane, commander of the armies. That Brunswick, Maine is named after my hometown in Germany, Braunschweig, is another positive thing, but that's not enough for the highest rating. Sorry.

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Summary: not as fascinating as the first four...
Review: I don't know. It took me almost a week to finish this book. I read the previous five in two or three days each. Okay, there are some new ideas, like the land ironclads or the airship wings, and another positive point is, that even the human main characters are not immortal. But I think there has to be something really new to give this series a new spark of life in the next book, because reading about grand battles in every book with almost the same opponents can grow boring after a time (five to six books). But apart from that, it is a fast-paced military adventure, that captivates even readers that are not american patriots. I would even give it the highest rating, but there are a few things that prevented it. Sometimes it is just too much action at too many locations. I got really confused at times and just read on without really grasping the whole of it. Then there are suddenly a bunch of colonels in the army, but according to the first five books, there is only one colonel, and that is Andrew Keane, commander of the armies. That Brunswick, Maine is named after my hometown in Germany, Braunschweig, is another positive thing, but that's not enough for the highest rating. Sorry.

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Summary: Edge of your seat
Review: I started reading the series last week and have read all 6 now. Just found out about A band of brothers and am going to buy as soon as possible. Keep it up and I will keep on reading.

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Summary: keep it coming
Review: Im 13 and have read all 6 books and have enjoyed them imensley. I read each in under 2 days. I think chuck furgeson shouldnt have died. Also i need a map i know the places but i dont get how they connect. By the way all his books are good but this and the wing commander series are my personal favorites.

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Summary: keep it coming
Review: Im 13 and have read all 6 books and have enjoyed them imensley. I read each in under 2 days. I think chuck furgeson shouldnt have died. Also i need a map i know the places but i dont get how they connect. By the way all his books are good but this and the wing commander series are my personal favorites.