Centaurs are Coming! Centaurs are Coming!

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	• HYMN BEFORE BATTLE (POSLEEN WAR, NO 1) JOHN RINGO Baen Publishing Enterprises, 2003 average customer review:based on 1 review
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Centaurs are Coming! Centaurs are Coming!

I definitely enjoy sci-fi books, alt-his books, soldiers' war memories books and historical battles books.
Well believe it or not John Ringo's "A Hymn Before Battle" is a tasty combination of all these genres and writing styles!

I've already read some books of what is usually known as "military sci-fi" and with the exception of Joe Haldeman's "Forever Peace" the rest of them, IMHO, range from "very boring" to "just so-so".
That is NOT the case with the present volume.

Mr. Ringo instills a strange sense of reality in all battle accounts (they really made me remember Lt. Wells "Give me fifty Marines not afraid to die" prose describing Iwo Jima experience).
When he portrays the general picture of a battle or campaign they come so true as if you were reading Toland or Beevor or even Hastings.
Off-planet urban and rural scenery is minutely described; sophisticated weapons and tactics too and on top of all, the energetic "Mighty Mite" appears as a true soldier not a bi-dimensional caricature.

The story is as follows: in 2001 Humankind receives a warning that a swarm of centaur-like alien will strike Sol System as they march thru the galaxy.
The Galactic Federation, a supposedly friendly, entente of some sentient species, opposes the swarming Posleen hordes. Unfortunately there are no fighting species amongst them so they resort to Humans to constitute a sort of "Foreign Legion" strike force to defend them and Sol System.
Coupling galactic technology and human skills new weapons and military tactics are developed.
Will they be ready to effectively confront the Centaurs? How? Where? When?
OK read this book and you'll learn about. By the way you'll probably get hooked to read the rest of the series titles, at least I am!

"A Hymn Before Battle" is a high quality sci-fi novel deserving to be read by every true buff! Do not let it pass by!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.

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