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Name: The Chosen

Authors: S. M. Stirling, David Drake
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9780671877248
0671877240

This is one of my favourite books. To explain why, is difficult. First thing, I read it at least once a year, just because I enjoy it, and because it is a banquet for a hobby military historian.Theoretically a part of David Drakes "General" series, but written by S.M. Stirling, it seems to belong to that series, but in reality it is nothing less but a Par Force Ride through military history from 1880 to 1936. Each section of the book is loosely based on factual happenings in the timespan I described above. It starts with the technology of the late 19th century, then describes a mixture of the 1898 / 1905 wars (US/Spain, Japan/Russia) takes huge parts of the spanish civil war, then goes WWI and ends in the 30ies. You will find lots of tongue in cheek episodes, from the "Guns of Navarone", over "For whom the bell tolls", "Richthofen", up to "Der Untergang" The red threat running through the whole book is Stirlings Draka series, again the REALLY bad guys.If you are interested in military history, this is your book, a tour de force through the technologies of the early 20th century, with a touch of Spain, France, Switzerland and of course sea monsters, how could I forget that part....