The Butcher's Bill [Paperback]

David Drake (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Baen; paperback / softback edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671577735
• ISBN-13: 978-0671577735
• ASIN: B002JJ0TG0
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,066,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When your under fire the only way to survive is to hit back., January 17, 2003

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This review is from: The Butcher's Bill (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the third book in the series. An introduction by David Drake is followed by: But Loyal to His Own, At Any Price, The Butcher's Bill, Hangman, The Irresistible Force, Cultural Conflict, Liberty Port and Standing Down. Many of the stories are important to the Hammer's Slammers' universe. But Loyal to His Own and Standing Down are about Hammer himself, as a man and a commander. The Butcher's Bill is the first story written about the Slammers. The new story is Irresistible Force which continues the story of Lamartiere, who we met in The Immovable Object - which makes TWO stories set in the Hammer's Slammers universe about a character who was never trained to drive or fire or do anything with a tank!
This book is a must because many of the repeat stories are in books that have been out of print a very long time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Military Science Fiction at its' Best!!, February 11, 1999

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This review is from: The Butcher's Bill (Mass Market Paperback)

David Drake does it again. This book is must reading for the military science fiction enthusiast and should be read by every combat officer in the US Army as a primer for what to do and what not to do as a leader. "Every leader thinks he can lead his men into heaven" but not all do. Read this book and understand why.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well done work, January 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Butcher's Bill (Mass Market Paperback)

Drake has done it again. In this work he captures the feeling of the front line troops and the human effect of war. As always, a well done work.