Re: Printed works of future combat

John Atkinson wrote:
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> >_Tank Sargent_ by Ralph Zumbro. The only first-person account of
armor
> >actions in Vietnam that I've been able to find. Reminds me a bit of
> >Hammer's Slammers, but that's not surprising, as I believe Drake was
> >attached to a unit similar to this one.
> 
> He was an interrogator/interpreter for a squadron of the 11th ACR
> during 1970.	When he got back, he found himself writing Vietnam
> stories that didn't sell.  So he put it in a rayguns and rockets
> setting, and found that it sold much better.	The only one that's not
> even loosly Vietnam based is, of course, Counting the Cost, which is
> based on the Nika riots in Constantinople during the reign of
Justinian
> the Great.

Two related stories that are in the same universe, 'To Cross the Stars'
and 'The Voyage' are based on the Odessey and the legend of Jason and
the Argonaughts respectivly.

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 The end is the sum of the means,
 as the road travelled determines the destination." 
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