Ranks Of Bronze

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618242997
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ranks of Bronze written by David Drake and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were Roman soldiers¾ and they were still alive because there were no better killers in the galaxy. The Galactics need fighters who could win battles without the aid of technology. That's why, when Rome's legions suffered disaster at Carrhae, secretive alien traders were waiting to buy them on the Persian slave market. Now, virtually immortal, the Romans fight strange enemies on stranger worlds; and though they win every battle, the spoils of victory never include freedom. If the legionaries are ever to return to Earth, it must be through the beam weapons and force screens of their ruthless alien owners. But no matter the odds, two thousand years is a long time; the Romans are coming home. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0671319906
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Legions written by David Drake and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the universe of "Ranks of Bronze, Foreign Legions" presents masterful new novellas by David Drake, Eric Flint, S.M. Stirling, Marl L. Van Name, and David Weber. "David Drake is now the king of military science fiction".--"Philadelphia Weekly Press".

Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0671318608
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Excalibur Alternative written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is based on a much shorter version published in David Drake's "Foreign Legions".

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765387050
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Prey written by David Drake and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome, 262 A.D: It had been the capital of the greatest civilization on Earth. Now both city and civilization are dying. Imperial unity has shattered as separatist and usurpers squabble among themselves and greater enemies gather to swallow them all. One man stands between humanity and the Long Night, matching his savage determination against a hopeless future. He is Aulus Perennius, an Imperial secret agent as tough and ruthless as the age in which he lives. Until now, though, his enemies have all been human. “Blood and thunder need not be thud and blunder if done with intelligence and flair, and David Drake has proven that he can do it that way.” —Asimov’s SF Magazine on Birds of Prey At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : David Weber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429983000
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Firm a Foundation written by David Weber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Weber's How Firm a Foundation is the latest novel in the New York Times-bestselling Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, and A Mighty Fortress. The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love. For five years, Charis has survived all the Church of God Awaiting and the corrupt men who control it have thrown at the island empire. The price has been high and paid in blood. Despite its chain of hard-fought naval victories, Charis is still on the defensive. It can hold its own at sea, but if it is to survive, it must defeat the Church upon its own ground. Yet how does it invade the mainland and take the war to a foe whose population outnumbers its own fifteen to one? How does it prevent that massive opponent from rebuilding its fleets and attacking yet again? Charis has no answer to those questions, but needs to find one...quickly. The Inquisition's brutal torture and hideous executions are claiming more and more innocent lives. Its agents are fomenting rebellion against the only mainland realms sympathetic to Charis. Religious terrorists have been dispatched to wreak havoc against the Empire's subjects. Assassins stalk the Emperor and Empress, their allies and advisers, and an innocent young boy, not yet eleven years old, whose father has already been murdered. And Merlin Athrawes, the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, has finally learned what sleeps beneath the far-off Temple in the Church of God Awaiting's city of Zion. The men and women fighting for human freedom and tolerance have built a foundation for their struggle in the Empire of Charis with their own blood, but will that foundation be firm enough to survive? Safehold Series 1. Off Armageddon Reef 2. By Schism Rent Asunder 3. By Heresies Distressed 4. A Mighty Fortress 5. How Firm A Foundation 6. Midst Toil and Tribulation 7. Like A Mighty Army 8. Hell's Foundations Quiver 9. At the Sign of Triumph At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168458
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men of Bronze written by Donald Kagan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare by some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek social, political, and cultural institutions. Throughout the twentieth century scholars developed and refined this grand hoplite narrative with the help of archaeology. But over the past thirty years scholars have criticized nearly every major tenet of this orthodoxy. Indeed, the revisionists have persuaded many specialists that the evidence demands a new interpretation of the hoplite narrative and a rewriting of early Greek history. Men of Bronze gathers leading scholars to advance the current debate and bring it to a broader audience of ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, and general readers. After explaining the historical context and significance of the hoplite question, the book assesses and pushes forward the debate over the traditional hoplite narrative and demonstrates why it is at a crucial turning point. Instead of reaching a consensus, the contributors have sharpened their differences, providing new evidence, explanations, and theories about the origin, nature, strategy, and tactics of the hoplite phalanx and its effect on Greek culture and the rise of the polis. The contributors include Paul Cartledge, Lin Foxhall, John Hale, Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, Peter Krentz, Kurt Raaflaub, Adam Schwartz, Anthony Snodgrass, Hans van Wees, and Gregory Viggiano.

Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 1416508988
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Soldiers written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sole survivors of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion--Captain Maneka Trevor and Bolo known as Lazarus--are all that stand between a deperate, secret colony of humanity and destruction of the human race.

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618247379
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriots written by David Drake and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVOLT ON A FRONTIER PLANET The corrupt Earth government is sending an army to Greenwood to remove the pioneers who discovered and settled the planet: the potential profits are too great to leave the world to scraggly ne'er-do-wells! Though the rugged individualists of Greenwood may be fractious and disinclined to agree on most things, the greedy politicians of Earth will learn a harsh lesson if they think the settlers won't join together to save their livelihoods and homes! Under Yerby Bannock, who never walked away from a drink or a fight, the Greenwood patriots will face thugs in the night, lawyers in a distant court, traitors in their own ranks¾ And, if they have to, a fortress built to shrug off the assault of a battlefleet! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : David Drake
Publisher : Night Shade
ISBN 13 : 9781597800716
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Balefires written by David Drake and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balefires is the long-awaited collection of David Drake's weird and fantastic fiction. Before Drake was a best-selling author of military science fiction, he was a prolific writer of horror and fantasy short fiction. Balefires collects some of his earliest professional sales (including his first sale to Arkham House.) In addition, Balefires brings together many stories set in the worlds of his fantasy novels (Ranks of Bronze, Lord of the Isles, etc.) and contains original fiction. More than just a collection of stories, Balefires features extensive story notes that chronicle the development of the writing career of one of the science fiction's most popular writers, and provides detailed snapshots of the larger than life editors, publishers and writers that Drake has worked with throughout his career. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Author : Pierce Brown
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345539796
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Rising written by Pierce Brown and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. “Red Rising ascends above a crowded dys­topian field.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness “I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.” “I live for you,” I say sadly. Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.” Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so. Praise for Red Rising “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler “Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER