Military Dimension [Import] [Paperback]

David Drake (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Baen Books,U.S. (December 29, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555940714
• ISBN-13: 978-1555940713
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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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5.0 out of 5 stars FROM BACK COVER, March 30, 2008

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Avid Reader "Jim" (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Military Dimension (Paperback)

CONFLICT:

* An armored battalion in Viet Nam meets an enemy older than humanity.

* Commandos storm an alien prison camp - and learn there are worse fates than death.

* A Perimeter guard does his job - for thousands of years.



Soldiers, doing the best they can in disasters where nothing is certain - least of all their own survival. Death wears a thousand screaming faces, and the only choice is to go on or go under.

The universe won't care.