Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States
by Michael Mannske
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Author: Michael MannskeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-04
ISBN: 0979675901
Number of pages: 434
Publisher: Radius7 Pressworks
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Book Review: Once You Accept the Concept , This is Riveting
Summary: 5 Stars
The author calls this book, "Near Fiction," i.e. "a futuristic story that ping pongs somewhere between non-fiction and science fiction." It is certainly all that and much more.
The book is about the US-UN War. Far fetched?
It is Book 2 of a trilogy and Books 1 and 3 have not been written yet. Odd?
Ask George Lucas.
I have to admit that it took me several chapters to wrap my brain around the author's concept of a near fiction war between the US and the UN, but the further one goes into the story, the easier the idea is to accept.
The thing which makes this all work for me is that Michael Mannske can flat out write. His characters come alive, his scenarios become plausable and his knowledge of the military gives the book an authenticity that near fiction and science fiction need in order to remain plausible.
Mannske says in the Afterword that he wrote this book because he was bored. That he wanted to escape the post 9/11 world and be "mesmerized again by cataclysmic clashes and superpower showdowns...where military strategies are brought to life and age old SIOP [Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol] war plans dusted off and tested in the crucible of the imagination."
The crucible of this author's imagination is white hot. If you are looking for a book that is not boring and quite mesmerizing, Foreign and Domestic is just the ticket. I promise you it will make you think and probably keep you up later than is good for you. It did me.
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