Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington #5)
by David Weber
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Author: David WeberEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09-03
ISBN: 0743435753
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Baen
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Book Review: A heroine for the ages
Summary: 5 Stars
The fifth entry in the long running Honor Harrington series by David Weber, Flag in Exile is superb. Honor's strengths are equivalent to Achilles' without the pouting, and with more intelligence. The best parts of the books for me, including this one, are the relationships Honor has with her friends, lovers and enemies. Certain of her speeches are Churchillian in grandeur, expressed so perfectly as to arouse vicarious envy.
I might subtract one half star for the battle scenes. David Weber has gone to great lengths to imagine a future with a plausible interstellar technology. He has also imagined navies that are similar to the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War in that they have achieved a relative military balance that heavily favors the offense. Thus, just as 87,000 American soldiers were killed in 3 days of battle at Gettysburg, tens if not hundreds of thousands of soldiers are killed in each battle that takes place in this series. I am somewhat miffed that Weber presents these battles without comment. Is he making an ironic point that no matter how advanced technology becomes, no matter how human beings evolve, they will NEVER figure it out - the total senseless futility of it all? Or does he somehow find glory in these great battles with their mass casualties? It is up to the reader to decide. It is no accident that my favorite book of the series is number 4, "Field of Dishonor," probably because it contains the fewest large-scale battles of any of the other books in the series that I have read.
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