1634: The Baltic War (The Ring of Fire)
by David Weber, Eric Flint
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Author: David Weber, Eric FlintEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN: 1416555889
Number of pages: 1072
Publisher: Baen
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Book Review: Not Invented here
Summary: 4 Stars
Yet again Mr Flint shines through with the classic American "Not Invented Here" Syndrome (And don't get me started on his "Playing Fields of Eton" Diatribe.)*
Anyway back to this book, I suppose it was a faint hope but given that the story does take place in Germany someone, somewhere might come up with the idea for making a copy of the Dreyse Needle Gun. Not only the worlds first production Bolt-action Rifle, but in general service with the Prussian Army decades before the Sharps, and anyway a superior design, with the percussion cap contained within the cartridge.
I am not saying that this is not a good book, which it is, but perhaps someone should take their head out of their apple pie and exchange their colt 45 for a walther ppk
P.s Oliver Cromwell was a religious zealot - jut think about it.
*(Well the punchline is that people with glass armies shouldn't throw stones, Mr Flint should reflect on the US Army's manpower allocations, since during WWII the us infantry consisted largely of the least fit and poorly educated what does this say about West Virginia making up the largest proportion)
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