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Publication
Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2002.
Description
Colonel Alois Hammer: to the galaxy, a legendary commander of mercenaries. To his troops, a leader who can be trusted to always back them to the hilt - and meet a payroll. When the situation on a planet has gone beyond desperate, it's time to call for Hammer's Slammers.
User reviews
LibraryThing member euang
lack of excitement: While I liked the book overall, I thought there was a real lack of excitement in the battle scenes simply because the Slammers armored battalions simply walk right over their enemies with almost no casualties to themselves. Virtually every battle is the same: the tanks and
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armored cars go in, blow everything away in their path with little to no losses of their own, then the enemy surrenders. It would have been much more exciting if the Slammers faced an actual challenge from enemies that fired back, instead of the target practice/ turkey shoot battles that pervade the novel. Show Less
LibraryThing member bzedan
After a January of Chekhov and Tolstoy and other cheery Russian bastards, then a February of penny-dreadfuls and other 19th century nonsense, reading something from the past decade was kind of a shocker. And it was all full of tanks and explosions and the other things I love Drake for. Politics of
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the crowd, too. But always the tanks. Show Less
Original publication date
2002-07
ISBN
0743435478 / 9780743435475
Local notes
Hammer's Slammers, 9
DDC/MDS
| Fic SF Drake |
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