Two Books by David Drake
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Overview: The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away.
Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.
Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.
Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Book 1: The Tank Lords
Colonel Alois Hammer has welded five thousand killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces threats from guerillas, insurgents or terrorists, the men they hire are Hammer’s Slammers, known throughout the galaxy for their cold, ruthless ferocity, their ability to defeat overwhelming forces and their willingness to go up against impossible odds. How do they do it? They certainly don’t abide by the rules of civilised warfare …but then nobody ever claimed that the Hammers were nice! Even when their chances are one step away from hopeless – those who oppose them have no chance at all…
Book 2: The Military Dimension: Mark II
WELCOME TO THE WAR ZONE
When they say that war changes a man, they’re being euphemistic. War makes a man insane by civilian standards. When the man comes back, he may return to civilian norms again. After a while.
I’m not proud of many of the things that happened in Nam. I’m not proud of some of the things I did myself. But the men I served with were, for the most part, doing the best job they could with the cards they’d been dealt. I’m proud of them, and I’m proud to have been among them.
Anybody’s got a right to criticize the things that happened. But don’t criticize the men who did them unless you’ve been in their shoes. Ever since I came back, the object of my military fiction has been to put somebody as normal as you, or as I was, into a war zone.
And I hope to God neither you nor your son ever has an opportunity to compare my fiction with the real thing.
A shorter edition of this book was published under the title The Military Dimension.
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