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enjoyable!

This series is a pulsepounding, hearttugging, actionfilled page turner that does not ever disappoint! Chapter after chapter takes you to the brink of defeat and/or disaster and back! Not as good as book one as the Union soldiers stranded on a strange planet are betrayed by one of their own, need to develop fighting ships and have to form an alliance with other displaced people from history this time from ancient Rome.
Good fun but not a patch on the first installment, These books are so much fun! I love the logistics and the world, Some of the soldiers swear a lot, I can't blame them but this book is not for children, Well not bad, I think I well come back to the rest of the books later Classic example of the sophomore jinx,

The second book in THE LOST REGIMENT SERIES is one of the worst, When Colonel Keene and his Union Army heroes first came to this strange world, they had the privilege of liberating the Rus from their Tugar masters, The first novel was compelling because the Rus were such a simple, earthy people, and because the Civil War infantry tactics were so easy to understand and apply.


This second novel loses all of that great stuff, First it's all about naval warfare, which was not as important to the Civil War and is not as interesting, The ironclads are just not as exciting as real battles on lands, Second of all, the Roum and Cartha peoples are not nearly as decent and caring as the Rus they are more like sleazy low life tribes, They have no problem with fighting AGAINST Keene and his heroes and switching sides whenever it's convenient,

Last of all, the main American character in this book is actually the VILLAIN in the first novel, the corrupt sailor Cromwell, This guy is really hard to like, he's creepy, mean, shifty, and has some very unappealing personality traits, It's hard to care what happens to him one way or another,

Just about everyone I know who loves these books reads, then skips toand, the high points of the series, A better written book, and quite compelling world building, very good battle drama and better richer characters, Good stuff if you like historical action with a twist, Not as good as book one as the Union soldiers stranded on a strange planet are betrayed by one of their own, need to develop fighting ships and have to form an alliance with other displaced people from history.
. Quite a slow book, following on from Rally Cryit goeshours, quite a long commitment, I wonder if the story is going anywhere in the nine book series, . . or just samesame Not as awesome as the first one, but its a good continuation to the story,./Commentaire valable pour lespremiers tomes de la série, car acheté en volume double,

Excellent histoire, où la mise en place est surtout faite lors du premier opus, quelque peu lente, mais comme on rentre dans un tout autre univers cela est nécessaire et fortement justifié car pour y en avoir des différences entre notre monde lors de la guerre de sécession et le leur il y en a !

Dès lors que l'on découvre les Merkis et les fosses abattoirs, le monde et le rythme change, à notre plus grand plaisir.
Autant que ces monstres sont puissant, autant que Keane et ses hommes sont ingénieux, On en voie de toutes les couleurs et on se fait surprendre coup après coup,

Vivement la suite, seul petit bémol, il n'y a quetomes de traduits sur, reste à voir si cela est si dramatique ou bien que cela permet de donner une fin décente Quite a slow book, following on from Rally Cry, as the Yankees who were transported through a wormhole to a Stargate style world of different races from different times face off against a different horde and try to build alliances.


This time, they try to expand from the Rus area mediaeval Russians, originally under the yoke of corrupt church and the Boyars into Roum ancient Romans, who still use slaves for manual labour and are against the American way of freedom for all.


There are various traitors within all camps, from people who may lose their power base to ones who aren't too happy at being stuck on an alien world.


The main battles are fought at sea, with the newcomers introducing ironclads alongside Roman galleys, Luckily the enemy seem to give the Yankees time to build a fleet of them, which manages to swing the tide of battle,

A decent book, but all the outcomes seem a bit too pat, so you're never really too worried if the good guys will manage to come through.


The second book in the "Lost Regiment" series is almost as good as the first, Forstchen is able to continue the narrative in a compelling manner and the triumphs and setbacks of the regiment are painted in vivid detail, Rather interresting second opus, the Union regiment from US civil war still kicks hard those Huns look alike Loved the book, love the series, Great premise and execution by Fortschen, Battle scenes, on both land and sea, are as exhilarating as they come, and several characters are developed more fully than previously, My only complaint, and the reason I only gavestars, is that I felt the book was overlong in places, and even slightly over descriptive, especially in matters of logistics.
This is merely down to preference however, as others may enjoy this level of detail, so don't hesitate to give it a read! Good sequel to Battle Cry.
OK these books are really not that great, but come on a civil war regiment sucked thru a wormhole to a world where humans are kept merely as cattle by an giant alien race of mongol like warriors.
And it is a well written as that sentence, Those damn aliens never tasted minie balls and grape shot, Go Humans. Plus there is a whole series of them, Awesome. Who the hell publishes this stuff and did anyone ever read them but me Great second book, Good characters, good story. The lost Regiment series is a fabulous story set in the days of the American Civil War, It is basically the Civil War meets Planet of the Apes, It is one of those refreshing stories that no on has done before or since, The writing style is smooth and easy to understand, and the plot moves just right, A great series is one where the reader gets to grow with the characters and this one does just that, Good sequal. Almost as good as the first in the series, Series definately has to be read in order, An American Civil War regiment gets transported to a world where a savage spieces comes around every few years and collects tribute in the form of human flesh.
Thisseries trods a wellworn path of military scifi a prime example is Jerry Pournelles “Janissaries”, Fortschen does decently well, The first book is not bad, but by the time I got to the end of book three, I discovered that the story was not really going anywhere anymore.
There is better stuff than this out there,

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More of what I have come to expect from Fortchen, I am looking forward to the next book, This is a fun series, A great second volume to this outstanding series, If you like the "displaced person in another world" stories then this is the series for you, Now we get an entire regiment of people on another earth, Fantastic story and awesome characters, Highly recommended The fact that a couple of years have passed since I've finished first volume in this series and reached for second installment only now is an indication all in itself that 'Lost regiment' failed to make a lasting impression on me.
Still, I'm glad I found my way back to this series, because there is a lot to like here as long as one's after pure entertainment value, The author certainly has a gift of storytelling and once you accept the somewhat prepostrous premise, the plot flows quite nicely, I also like the characters and social evolution of the verse in which the events take place, Also, the author doesn't make things easy, unlike some other scifi writers yes, David Webber, I'm thinking about you right now, and makes his heroes work hard and pay a steep price for each success that they have.

The main problem that I have both with this volume and the first book in the series consists of the fact that in the end you know that things, however bleak they may look at the moment, somehow will work out into a happy ending.
I understand why author does that, but this certainty somehow takes away from the enjoyment,
I guess that I will continue with next volume at some time,

but I'm not in much of a hurry,
Colonel Andrew Keane and his bluecoated soldiers were not the first humans timespacewarped to a world so familiar yet so foreign, Humans abounded on the perverse planethumans treated like cattle by the alien warrior overlords, Keane's Civil War weaponry defeated the swords, spears and crossbows of his monstrous adversaries, And part of the human population was freed, but the other part became puppets of the overlords in a vast counterattack, Now it was human vs, human, gun vs. gun, ironclad against ironclad, as the empires of Roum and Cartha clashed in gutwrenching, soulstirring struggle for the future of a world beyond time, Better battles in this one, good character development less dogooder rahrah than the first book, I'm interested to see how the next one plays out, William R. Forstchen bornis an American author who began publishing inwith the novel Ice Prophet, He is a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina, He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of Technology, Forstchen is the author of than forty books, including the award winning We Look Like Men of War, a young adult novel about an African American regiment that fought at the Battle of the Crater, which is based upon his doctoral dissertation, Theth USCTs: Indianas African Americans go to War,and the Lost Regiment series which has been optioned by both Tom Cruise and M.
Nigh William R. Forstchen bornis an American author who began publishing inwith the novel Ice Prophet, He is a Professor of History and Faculty Fellow at Montreat College, in Montreat, North Carolina, He received his doctorate from Purdue University with specializations in Military History, the American Civil War and the History of Technology, Forstchen is the author of than forty books, including the award winning We Look Like Men of War, a young adult novel about an African American regiment that fought at the Battle of the Crater, which is based upon his doctoral dissertation, Theth USCTs: Indianas African Americans go to War,and the "Lost Regiment" series which has been optioned by both Tom Cruise and M.
Night Shyamalan. Forstchens writing efforts have, in recent years, shifted towards historical fiction and non fiction, Inhe started the “Gettysburg” trilogy with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich the trilogy consists of Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, Grant Comes East, and Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant The Final Victory.
More recently, they have have published two works on the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and immediately after that attack Pearl Harbor, and Days of Infamy, In March, Forstchens latest work, One Second After, Forge/St, Martins books was released. Based upon several years of intensive research and interviews, it examines what might happen in a “typical” American town in the wake of an attack on the United States with “electro magnetic pulse” EMP weapons.
Similar in plotting to books such as On the Beach and Alas Babylon, One Second After, is set in a small college town in western North Carolina and is a cautionary tale of the collapse of social order in the wake of an EMP strike.
The book has been optioned by Warner Bros, and currently is in development as a feature film, The book was cited on the floor of Congress and before the House Armed Services Committee by Congressman Roscoe Bartlett R, MD, chair of the House Committee tasked to evaluate EMP weapons, as a realistical portrayal of the potential damage rendered by an EMP attack on the continental United States.
Forstchen resides near Asheville, North Carolina with his daughter Meghan, His other interests include archaeology, and he has participated in several expeditions to Mongolia and Russia, He is a pilot and co owns an originalAeronca LB recon plane used in World War II, sitelink sitelink.