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Marching Through Georgia (1988)
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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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07.16.03
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By S.M. Stirling. Imagine that if during World War II the biggest threat to the world's freedom was not Nazi Germany but another country, a country called The Domination of the Draka. In this alternate history loyalists from the American Revolution fled to South Africa. Through the years others joined them, including the losers in the Civil War. What develops is a country based on slave labor ruled by a warrior people whose only goal is to conquer the world, for the sake of obtaining POWER. This book follows Eric Von Shrakenberg, a Draka commander, who is in Russia fighting the Germans. Stirling shows us that not all the Draka are necessarily evil and just when you think that certain characters are okay they do something that makes you take the opposite stance. It makes the reader very ambivalent, which is the book's point entirely. Nothing is black and white. In this first Draka book (there are four) there's plenty of action, gore, tension and horror. As the quote from David Drake on the cover says 'A Tour De Force'.!!!
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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