- Mass Market Paperback: 95 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; Reissue edition (Jan 14 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345362004
- ISBN-13: 978-0345362001
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,207,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the 22d century, when the Japanese ruled an interstellar empire from the Earth, an imperial task group was dispatched to put down with minimum bloodshed the three-way colonial revolt on a factory world the rebels called Suid Afrika.
Interstellar warfare is expensive, so the task group was considerably undergunned, a mix of orbiting ground-attack craft, light infantry, and logistics units. And its quality varied, from the supersharp troops of Lieutenant Colonel Anton Vereshchagin's 1st Battalion, 35th Imperial Infantry (Rifle), to the inept senior officers of the task group staff.
At first, and as usual, the fighting all went the Impis' way. Then the crafty Boers found a way to take advantage of an admiral's stupidity. All too soon, the war came down to a single battalion against a world. . .
Interstellar warfare is expensive, so the task group was considerably undergunned, a mix of orbiting ground-attack craft, light infantry, and logistics units. And its quality varied, from the supersharp troops of Lieutenant Colonel Anton Vereshchagin's 1st Battalion, 35th Imperial Infantry (Rifle), to the inept senior officers of the task group staff.
At first, and as usual, the fighting all went the Impis' way. Then the crafty Boers found a way to take advantage of an admiral's stupidity. All too soon, the war came down to a single battalion against a world. . .
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In the 22nd century, when the Japanese ruled an interstellar empire from Earth, an Imperial Task Group was dispatched to put down with minimum bloodshed the three-way colonial revolt on a factory world called Suid Afrika. But through an admiral's stupidity, the "small" war soon mushroomed into a confrontation between a single battalion and an entire world! Original.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Speaking as a veteran...,
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This review is from: Small Colonial War (Mass Market Paperback)
Superb military SF, but also a book I recommend to people that want to try and understand something about the military life and war in general. Frezza did something with this book that is rare, it made me truly care for the characters and feel sad about the ones who died - on all of the sides. Superb.
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A SMALL CLOLONIAL WAR,
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This review is from: Small Colonial War (Mass Market Paperback)
THIS AND THE OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES ARE OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES OF MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION.I RE-READ THIS BOOK AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR AND HAVE RECOMENDED IT TO ALL OF MY FRIENDS WHO ENJOY THE GENERA. I REALLY WISH A FOURTH BOOK WOULD BE WRITTEN BUT THE SERIES DID END AT A LOGICAL POINT. FREZZA IS TO GROUND COMBAT WHAT WEBER IS TO STAR NAVIES. ENJOY!
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is excellent! Robert Frezza is masterful!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Small Colonial War (Mass Market Paperback)
A Small Colonial War captures the soul of military life in the midst of a bitter and difficult campaign. Anton Vereschagin and the members of his battalion are complex characters and Robert Frezza has done an excellent job of evolving the story on the basis of the viewpoints of the main characters. After finishing the book, I had to read it again several times to fully flush out the nuances in the opening scenes which set the context for the storyline to emerge. This book really brought home the humor and the pain of men in the battlefield for whom going home is not really an option. I'm not a military man myself but I could identify with several of the characters and the situations they were in. I highly recommend this book to all fans of military SF as well as fans of military fiction in general.
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