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When Union Colonel Andrew Keane led his blue-coated soldiers aboard the transport ship, he could not have foreseen that their next port of call would be neither in the North nor the South, but on an alternate world where no human was free. Storm-swept through a space-time warp, Keane's regiment was shipwrecked in an alien land, a land where all that stood between them and destruction was the power of rifles over swords, spears, and crossbows.Tags
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Beamed onto another world a few centuries earlier, a union regiment with a leader who sounds and feels like Joshua Chamberlain encounters Sasquatch like people who eat others like cattle. Instead of using time travel to illustrate the darker side of the Confederacy, this book uses science fiction.
Simplistic fun with John Wayne style heroes giving their all. The book held my interest, great weekend read.
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Rally Cry (Lost Regiment) - The First novel in the Lost Regiment Series details the struggles and stories of the 35th Maine and 44th New York Light Artillery. This Civil War era regiment is transported by a "tunnel of light" from Earth to the Planet Valennia.
The wormhole deposits them near a city of feudal Russians where they quickly make friends (among the peasant class) and enemies (among show more the ruling class). In addition to the feudal Russians on this planet, there are many different human civilizations from various past periods of Earths history. show less
The wormhole deposits them near a city of feudal Russians where they quickly make friends (among the peasant class) and enemies (among show more the ruling class). In addition to the feudal Russians on this planet, there are many different human civilizations from various past periods of Earths history. show less
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Writer and educator William R. Forstchen was born in New Jersey in 1950. He received a B.A. from Rider College in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and a M.A. in European history and a Ph.D. in military history from Purdue University. Forstchen teaches at Montreat College in Asheville, North Carolina. Forstchen uses his knowledge of military history to show more create science fiction stories of other universes and societies. His series include Gamestar Wars, Ice Prophet, and The Lost Regiment. He is also the co-author with Newt Gingrich of 1945, an alternative history of World War II. His other stand-alone novels include The Four Magics, Doctors of the Night, One Second After and its sequel, One Year After which hit the New York Times Bestseller list in September 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Rally Cry
- Original title
- Rally Cry
- Original publication date
- 1990
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