Rating: 
Summary: Rally Cry
Review: I don't think I've stayed up reading a book til 2:00 a.m. for at least thirty years. "Rally Cry" has brought some excitement back to my reading - and I'm really relieved. I thought it was me. I hadn't even finished the last several books I started. Now I know that it was the material. Thanks Bill!Forstchen combines some of what I liked best about Farmer (the unlimited possibilites of his Riverworld and World of the Tiers) with some elements of Burroughs, my first addiction. John Carter was, after all, a Civil War vet also, albeit a Virginian, if my memory serves me right. One of the other reviews lauded Forstchen's idealism. I echo that. I have always been a Civil War music buff. The lyrics portray some of the highest human values. That Fortstchen makes some of this music the centerpiece of his books, shows he feels what he writes. You can't fake it. These are works of love. What is so moving about his battle scenes, is that the heroism, valor and sacrifice, while almost incredible to us, were nevertheless displayed by many soldiers and regiments during the Civil War (and, in fact, all our nation's wars). Tomorrow I buy book two.
Rating:
Summary: Rally Cry saga
Review: I first read this novel, when it first came out way back when! I remember coming home from school and calling into the library as I usually did waiting on the next in the saga. I read up to Terrible Swift Sword as it was the last to be published for a while. I found this saga a great read something that kept me busy - and distracted - while doing my A Levels. The story was compiling and very descriptive and very vivid. I loved the line "Mine eyes have seen the glory" something that has lurked in the depths of my mind for many years. If you haven't read this saga you are surely missing something of great import. One of the best characters in the novel was Hawthorne and Forstchen fully developed him in the length of the saga, whom we all identify with. I now look forward to reading the last few books. If there was a Hall of Fame Rally Cry should be there.
Rating:
Summary: Breathtaking realism!
Review: After reading and loving Harry Turtledove's World War: In the Balance and Colonization series, a reader recommended the Lost Regiment series to me. I was completely spellbound by the vivid battle scenes and outstanding characterization portrayed in Rally Cry. Needless to say, I've ordered the other 7 titles in the series and can't wait to delve into them. I can't recommend this book strongly enough--definitely 10 stars, not 5! Again, I hope for recommendations from other readers who loved this book...
Rating:
Summary: A five-starer for this one...
Review: I rarely give out five stars (only to a couple Wing Commander novles-- Also by Forstchen), but I felt that this first installment to the Lost Regiment series warranted that kind of lofty praise. The action is exciting and very intense, especially the end battles at the Ford and Suzdal, and you sort of do really feel the humans' desparation as they attempt to build a modern army from medievel Russian peasents in only a short amount of time. The transformation of the characters of Hawthorne and Kalencka are interesting, too. A young private to a colonel, a peasent to a leader of a rebellion. It was also cool to see a Ferguson in a book (my last name, if anyone cares). My only real complaint, however, was the horrible editing, but it was not enough for me to knock a star off there. Anyway, Rally Cry is really good read, yet oddly seems very different from the other books once you get up to book seven or eight, like I am now.
Rating:
Summary: Rally Cry
Review: This book has been a pleasure to read. The plot is very well formulated and the book has a feel to it. The characters are very realistic, right down to the traitor among the 35th's ranks. Some parts of the story are a little hard to believe. Such as the regiment having a lot of specialists. But then again, it could have been that way and the author made up for it in the battle. All considered, a very good book.
Rating: 
Summary: An Imitation?
Review: I don't mean to rain on anybody's bandwagon of praise for this novel, but it strikes me as all too close an imitation of Harry Turtledove's "Legion of Videssos" series. I mean, instead of a lost Roman Legion being mysteriously transported to a fantasy world, we have an American Civil War regiment. Same song, second verse.
Rating:
Summary: The single most amazing work of fiction I have yet read!
Review: This book is addictively good. I started and couldn't stop. I finished the entire novel in one day! The story and characters pulled me in. The entire book was a true testament to the horror and wonder that is warfare. Opening my mind to everything from battlefield tactics to technological development. A literary wonder. If the scale gave more than five stars, this book would get it!
Rating:
Summary: Best SF-Alternate History eve
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I couldnt put it down - it had everything - Civil War, bravery, unbearable tension, absolutely horrible monsters, class warfare, russian peasants, applied engineering. Buy it!
Rating:
Summary: It was great and isnt an automatic hero win.
Review: This book was great and i reccomend it to all.It took time for Keane and his men to get used to the place they were but they hung on and fought all the way through.
Rating:
Summary: This book is truly amazing!
Review: When I started reading this book, I got so wrapped up in the story and the characters, that I simply lost track of time! I couldn't put the book down. One time, I even stayed up until one o'clock in the morning on a school night reading it!
| 
