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Summary: Here is the site
Review: A lot of people have asked me about bood number 8. It is scheduled to come at the end of this year, more towards December.There is a web site I happened upon... this site is great to give all the forthcoming books for all sci-fi series.
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Summary: Seven books, an epic!
Review: An epic, that is all I can call it. While waiting for #8 Men of War, I sat down and re-read all seven books and believe now more than ever that these are some of the finest books I have ever read. I have a library of over one thousand books in my home, and The Lost Resiment stands high as the best I have read. Never has a book or series of books so moved me as an American and a student of American history. You can feel the power and the pain of their struggle as these fine men fight against overwhelming odds for one simple reason - to live free. The most important factor of the stories is that the heroes are people just like you and me. Just like any hero, a moment before they were a hero they were plain old folks, just another person. You can connect with the people in the story because of that, you feel for them, you feel their joy and pain, when they laugh, you laugh, and when they cry you cry with them. When one of them quotes "We few we happy few, we band of brothers" tears will well up into your eyes, because you feel the brotherhood he speaks of. I am now going to sit down and read "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield, which was recommended to me by William R. Forstchen. 'Nuff said!
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Summary: Seven books, an epic!
Review: An epic, that is all I can call it. While waiting for #8 Men of War, I sat down and re-read all seven books and believe now more than ever that these are some of the finest books I have ever read. I have a library of over one thousand books in my home, and The Lost Resiment stands high as the best I have read. Never has a book or series of books so moved me as an American and a student of American history. You can feel the power and the pain of their struggle as these fine men fight against overwhelming odds for one simple reason - to live free. The most important factor of the stories is that the heroes are people just like you and me. Just like any hero, a moment before they were a hero they were plain old folks, just another person. You can connect with the people in the story because of that, you feel for them, you feel their joy and pain, when they laugh, you laugh, and when they cry you cry with them. When one of them quotes "We few we happy few, we band of brothers" tears will well up into your eyes, because you feel the brotherhood he speaks of. I am now going to sit down and read "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield, which was recommended to me by William R. Forstchen. 'Nuff said!
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Summary: Covers the same ground as #6.
Review: As a fan who has read the first six in this series and eagerly awaits each new book, I was a little disappointed with how many of the events in this, installment #7 were covered in installment #6.
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Summary: Forstchen does it again - almost
Review: Band of Brothers continues the Lost Regiment series, an intriguing blend of historical and military science fiction. The premise is fairly derivative of dozens of other SF books, especially Harry Turtledove's Videssos series. A US civil war regiment is transported to a world where humans are kept as slaves - "cattle" - to be eaten by a race of monstrous nine-feet high aliens reminiscent of Genghis Khan's Mongols. By the time Band of Brothers comes around, it is 10 years after the 51st Maine arrived, 10 years in which they have freed several human states and defeated two of the many hordes that feasted on them, all through the application of 19th century technology such as rifles and artillery. Beginning pretty much where book six left off, Republic troops are engaging in skirmishes with the Bantag Horde after narrowly escaping annihilation in book six. It is no secret to reveal Andrew Keane, the Commander of the 51st Maine and of the Republic's armies, is wounded (the book has the scene on the inside cover). The action focuses around Pat O'Donald, the gruff Irish artilleryman as he tries to hold the armies together. Most of the action takes place in Roum, in brutal city fighting which Forstchen writes quite well. His military actions are much better described than the tortuous scenes in Harold Coyles contemporary Civil War novels, and at least as good as Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck novels. But Band of Brothers, while not the weakest of the Lost Regiment series, is not the best, an honour I reserve for numbers three and four, Terrible Swift Sword and Fateful Lightning. Forstchen's narrative sometimes gets bogged down in descriptions of battle which are all too similar, a problem with a series like this. The technology once again takes small leaps forward in the book, one of the best parts of this series. You keep asking yourself, "what if the civil war kept going?", "What if technology leaps were injected, such as the Horde's harnessing of powered flight". But for novels which rely so much on descriptions of logistics, the lack of a map is not only annoying, but a serious omission. Forstchen should rectify this as soon as possible, even by posting one on the Net, so fans can properly appreciate his vision. In all, a good read, I stayed up till 3am to finish it.
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Summary: Another fine installment in the Lost Regiment series.
Review: Book 7 of the Lost Regiment series stays true to form. The Bantag horde, led by Haark the Redeemer is closing in on Roum. The transplanted Yankees, led by Civil War Colonel Andrew Keane have been on this alternative Earth for ten years. Under the very real threat of being killed and eaten by Merki warriors, the humans have advanced 50 to 75 years in military technology in only ten years and three wars. They have tanks (land ironclads), hybrid blimp/airplanes, hand grenades, and hollow charge anti-tank rockets. Fortchen does a good job of showing the difficulties of using these new weapons effectively. He also spends a lot of time on logistics, weather, morale, etc. My only complaint is that the book is too short at only 315 pages. I finished it in less than a day, and now I have to wait too long for the next installment.
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Summary: fantastic reading. Great accuracy and a great storyline!
Review: Can't tell you how much I enjoy the story. The only problem is they are few and far between. Keep 'em comming.
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Summary: A worthy sequel, but not quite as good as its prequels
Review: Forstchen continues building this excellent series, his own academic interests in military and technological history, and the American Civil War coming to the fore, in which a stranded Union regeiment bootstraps both a medieval Russian and a clasical Roman society into the 19th century and beyond... This book, the seventh in the series, is not quite as good as its prequels, if only because it is too short. Forstchen zips along the story at a fair clip, and tells it well, but still does this brevity mean that the author is becoming bored with his own tale? This is evident in that there are leaps in the story, which are not that jarring, but irritating all the same. Otherwise, there is little to complain about. Forstchen's characterisation and technological description remains solid, but some of the actions that characters take do seem to come out of left field and are a little unexpected. As a whole this series remains still relatively unexplored. Forstchen has concentrated upon one area of this world, so there could yet be a lot of stories beyond this. I for one would like to see this. Two areas that continue to let this series down are the lack of maps and also of a timeline - the seven books cover ten years of history and it can be difficult to place which event happens where and when... One other complaint is the inability to get these books in the UK at anything other than specialist dealers! Further, it might be interesting to see this setting developed in other media - a computer game or role-playing supplement perhaps? In summary, if you liked the rest of this series, you will enjoy this latest addition.
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Summary: THE NEW ERA
Review: Hey people first of all this is the greatest series of all time and second I have followed this series from the beginningever since RALLY CRY came out all those years ago . At first I bought it cuz of the Cover but a year later I read it and became immersed . After the #8 book there will be 3 more books entitled DOWN THE SEA and it will chronicle events after the BANTAG WAR . If you have any more questions e mail me at my address .
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Summary: Perfect continuation to a perfect storyline.
Review: I couldn't believe it. My new book, there on the shelf. The one that has almost made me sick just waiting for it to arrive, and now it's on the shelf. That's the way I felt when I meandered into the local boostore and saw Book seven on the new titles shelf. I had been waiting for this book for the longest time. I can remember finishing book six about two weeks after it came out and going, "Oh man, now I have to wait for the next one." This story more than made me happy I waited. The suspense, the new inventions, and the new twist to a battle that is seemingly endless. I could never get bored of this storyline. I just can't wait for another book to come out to satisfy my craving for few days. =)
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