Foreign Legions
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 thousands years the aliens thought they’d succeeded brilliantly—but then things changed! Set in the universe of Ranks of Bronze, masterful new novellas by: David Drake Eric Flint S. M. Stirling Mark L Van Name and David Weber explore 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 best infantry on Earth—
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. First printing, January 2000 Distributed by Simon & Schuster Printed in the United States of America |
ISBN: 0-671-31990-6Copyright 2001 by David Drake All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original Typeset by Windhaven Press Electronic version by WebWrights |
BAEN BOOKS by DAVID DRAKE
Lt. Leary
With the Lightnings Hammer's Slammers
The Tank Lords Independent Novels and Collections
The Dragon Lord
All the Way to the Gallows
The Belisarius series:(with Eric Flint)
An Oblique Approach The General series:(With S.M. Stirling)
The Forge
The Undesired Princess and The Enchanted Bunny
Lest Darkness Fall and To Bring the Light
Enemy of My Enemy: Terra Nova
Armageddon |