Summary
- Books #6 in Tom Kratman’s Carrera military science fictionseries.
- Tarawa. Iwo. Normandy. Names that shine in the military history of twoworlds, places where brave men stormed ashore and fought their way to victory nomatter the odds. But then there are other names: Marathon. Malta. Gallipoli.Balboa’s Patricio Carrera has driven the Tauran Union from his adoptedcountry, driven them out with appalling loss and worse humiliation. That’snot enough though. To finally finish his enemies, Carrera needs to draw themback for a more telling defeat. He cannot take the battle to them because,beyond some long range bombardment capability, he cannot reach them. But whenthey return, they don’t plan to come alone; they insist on having someoneelse do most of the bleeding for them. Carrera understands this. Andthat’s why he’s provoked the Zhong Guo mercilessly, infuriatingtheir ruling Empress. He needs the Zhong in the war, to buck up the Taurans tocontinue the war to its bitterest end. Now, Carrera’s enemies are about tolearn why the expression “blood-stained water” is not just a literaryallusion.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476736563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476736561 |
| Author: | Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. |
| Publisher: | Baen Books |
| Imprint: | Baen Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 611g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 156mm x 235mm |
| Audience Age: | 16 |
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
In 1974, at age seventeen, Tom Kratman became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People’s Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to do at one time or another. After the Gulf War, with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and having to deal with other lawyers got to be too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a somewhat similar group, say) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, put up with this for years. He no longer practices law, instead writing full-time for Baen. His novels for Baen include A State of Disobedience, Caliphate, and the series consisting of A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, The Lotus Eaters, The Amazon Legion, Come and Take Them, The Rods and the Axe, and A Pillar of Fire by Night. With John Ringo, he has written the novels Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, and The Tuloriad. Also for Baen, he has written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown.
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