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    <body><![CDATA[This person definitely has a military background with minute detail included about military organizations and strategies. However, the otherwise very action-packed novel gets lost in that very detail. He not only describes an action (such as lots of liquid traveled through some large plumbing pipes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47210589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Similar to Huff's Confederation series.<br/>All previous military personnel are being recalled to duty.  Micheal O'Neal is one of the first, and one of the privilaged to know why.  The planet Earth has been contacted by an alien race, who needs their help to fight an intergalactic war before the en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64262355">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I beaut sci fi series with a touch of the &quot;red neck&quot; in the hero. A book that supports those folk with a nuclear shelter and the arms to defend it.<br/><br/>Despite this, the tech available to the troops is wonderful. I want one of those suits.<br/><br/>Sadly, the co-operative stories ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52605581">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While I admit that this may not be the best book ever written (it's certainly got some flaws, and if you don't like military SF you're going to hate it), this is my comfort reading.  (Yes, I understand that makes me deeply weird.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These are just pretty strong scifi war books with some interesting ideas. I will continue to read and enjoy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intergalatic politics and a bloody war (yellow blood as well as red...but hey that's varity, right?) ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit too focused on army stuff for my taste. Cool concept but I ended up skimming through all the obsessive military detail.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a big fan of military s-f, and Ringo writes a ripping good yarn here.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read as an ebook. <br/>A free download from \\www.baen.com/library Baen Free Library.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I kept reading this and hoping it would get better. It did, but it didn't get better until far after the point where I usually would give up on a book; only the fact that I was stuck in an airport with a delayed plane and no other reading material kept me going on it.<br/><br/>There's the gem of a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1138008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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