Foreign Legions - Hardcover

Drake, David

 
9780671319908: Foreign Legions

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A collection of novellas chronicles the exploits and adventures of guilds of star-traveling merchants and their not-so-obedient human slaves and mercenaries.

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A collection of novellas chronicles the exploits and adventures of guilds of star-traveling merchants and their not-so-obedient human slaves and mercenaries.

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"Lots of Soldiers Work for CiviliansThey don't Like, but these Romans had It Worsethan Most -- Their Commanders wereBlue-Skinned Aliens!"The guilds of star-traveling merchants had strict rules to prevent their technology from falling into the hands of the natives of planets they were exploiting: military operations had to be carried out with weaponry no more complex than swords and bows.That was no handicap to merchant princes with a galaxy to scour for military slaves to do their fighting for them. Some came to Earth for soldiers and returned to the stars with the best the planet had to offer. For over two thousand years the aliens thought they'd succeeded brilliantly -- but then things changed!Set in the universe of "Ranks of Bronze, " masterful new novellas byDavid DrakeEric FlintS. M. StirlingMark L. Van Nameand David Weberexplore the bleeding edge between human courage and the science of alien slavemasters. The right man with a sword is just as deadly as a technician with a laser --And not all the blood spilled is red!YESTERDAY THEY WERE THE BESTINFANTRY ON EARTH-NOW THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ON THEWHOLE GALAXY.

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ISBN 10:  0743435605 ISBN 13:  9780743435604
Verlag: Baen, 2002
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