The Lost Regiment Series was terrific and I felt as if I lost an old friend upon completing the "final" chapter. With much surprise, I stumbled upon "Down To The Sea" and enjoyed it thoroughly. IT'S A GREAT AND FAST READ. BRING ON THE NEXT BOOK AND KEEP 'EM COMING!
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This new book is substantially improved over the previous series. What turned me off before were the graphic descriptions of things, like the Tugar Moon Feast. He lost me back at "Fateful Lightning" because of this issue. I think Forstchen has scaled that back just the right amount. It's there and you are aware of it, but it isn't churning your guts and detracting from the story.After 20 years of complacency, the Republic...
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Mr Forstchen has revitalised the Lost Regiment Series. Within half a page of this novel one is recaptured to that other world. I had felt that the previous novel was a tired, and unworthy, ending to a great series, but this book is a horse of a different colour. A true wordsmith, the author soon paints his universe anew, introduces new characters and builds on his characterisations of the old. An even more formidable...
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There is no peace in a world shared by the Horde. After twenty years of peaceful life after "Men of War" our heroes have all grown old and some have even past away. Now the sons of our hero's step up into the light, graduation of the academy introduces us to four young men that this book and others will follow."Down to the Sea" also introduces the reader to a new and deadlier foe. Religious fanatics in the Horde, blind...
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Forstchen's "Lost Regiment" books are truly unique. A straight-to-paperback series little known outside the genre, its dedicated readers have come to recognize it as one of the most reliable sources of enjoyment to be found anywhere. It seems woven from the very fabric of the American spirit: a shipload of Civil War-era Yankees is accidentally teleported to a far-off world, a world where human beings are nothing more than...
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