A Hymn Before Battle

from Wprecht

This is the debut novel by John Ringo, a former solider turned author a la David Drake. Unlike Drake's works, Ringo is able to weave grand strategy into a story with compelling tactical level battle scenes. At the beginning of the book we discover that the Earth is within the borders of a peacefu...

from SunnySD

Really kicks the series off with a bang! For the most satisfaction, read all them slightly out of series order. Hero and Watch on the Rhine are really stand-alone books set in the same world and presuming knowledge of the series. A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances and Hells F...

from monroecheeseman

Another one of those books i couldn't put down. The premise was an alien race conquering worlds on the way to earth. A non aggressive alien race helps earth with the promise that they would supply the solders. Followed a young officer in learning about the alien technology and using it to turn th...

from JeremyPreacher

This was one of the Baen Free Library books that I read a long time ago and was sort of surprised to really like. A lot of it is inside-baseball military jargon that I find surprisingly fascinating, and the rest is pure jingoistic shoot-'em-up fun. The setup is sort of perfect - the aliens are al...

from Karlstar

A decent army biased sci-fi war epic. The alien Posleen show up and start kicking butt all over the galaxy, opposed by the humans, with some help from more advanced alien species. As usual, they recruit humans because we're violent and vicious and stubborn, but it looks bleak when the Posleen inv...