3.98 avg rating — 6,310 ratings

"David Drake is one of the first and arguably the greatest in military SF, and it all started with Hammer's Slammers."

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"Joe Abercrombie writes a war book. Come on."

4.14 avg rating — 48,848 ratings

"The start of a seminal (albeit currently somewhat flagging) series."

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"David Drake and S.M. Stirling together for a military SF novel (and one of the strongest in this series, at that)? No-brainer."

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"Aliens kidnap a Roman legion to fight their wars on planets where advanced weaponry is proscribed. Influence of Andre Norton in the concept is obvious, but the execution is all Drake."

4.14 avg rating — 128,931 ratings

"The book that launched a thousand sequels... mostly of steadily decreasing quality. Still, you can't deny it's a classic."

3.94 avg rating — 3,245 ratings

"Grim as hell war story, but you could say that about a whole lot of Drake's work. This is probably the rawest and most personal look at the cost people pay to be the warriors they feel they have to be, though."

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"Spoiler alert: The humans defeat the aliens with a spaceship that detonates nuclear bombs for a propulsion system."

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"The Black Company books are some of the quintessential military SF/F works, and none top the original trilogy."

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