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Great writing style, Love Al

Revisado: 04-18-23

I wish Al Murray could narrate all of James's books, he brings life to the history and stories with passion and knowledge as well as a keen understanding of humanity that you don't always get in ww2 history.

James Holland always seems to strike the right balance between telling a story and telling the history.

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And that's all he wrote (for now)

Revisado: 02-26-23

Last book in the original run of books, its probably 1 too many, the story is a bit formulaic at this point, the tau are written out after 3 chapters. Its overall a great performance, its a good book, maybe there will be more Caine in the future, the author has published one more book since this one. Maybe we get a proper tau teamup book at some point.

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Amazing performance as always, Not great story

Revisado: 02-03-23

What if Christine was a 70 ton MBT, this is the book that Abnett started running out of ideas, the haunted tank takes up about 1/4th of this thing's runtime, all so gaunt can kill a tank with his sword

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Less of a Gadget book, more a top level strategy

Revisado: 07-14-22

The title implies it focuses on individual inventions but the actual narrative is focused on the problems planners of the war faced and what innovations were created to overcome those problems as well as small asides to the gadget when there was an interesting story or something important to the overall theme of middle management working in tandem with overall command

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Fine guard book for grimdark 40k

Revisado: 06-10-22

Its an OK book, the start isn't great as it rushes to introduce too many characters all at once jumping around too quickly, but once the book straightens things out the battle in the middle of the book is very rewarding. the rest of the book after that felt rushed and tried to kill off as many characters as possible as fast as possible, maybe emulating Dan Abnett's own style, but it leads to the ending coming too fast, and feeling completely hollow

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A book so pro capitalist its accidentally marxist

Revisado: 05-26-22

the author goes out of his way to make the managerial class of the 20s, 30s, and 40s into the glorious heroes of the 2nd world war and while they played their part, and were well rewarded for it, this book is completely divorced from the harsh labor conditions present at the time, and outright blames labor for the responses management choose to take at several points. Ironically its the language of maximizing production and the reverence the author has for how many nuts and bolts are in a car, and how many man hours it takes to construct one, that's ripped straight from marx and his discussions on cotton mills. Overall there's more interesting nuanced books out there if you're interested in a history of production in the 2nd world war.

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Its the end of the Saint Arc

Revisado: 01-14-22

Look, its the weakest of the 3 saint books, and does a lot of fighting but its also the end of the ghosts as a traditional unit as well

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one of the best new Astra Militarum Novels

Revisado: 01-05-22

Its a book about a leman russ tank crew which is very well written

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One of the Best Cain Books

Revisado: 11-10-21

this is one of the best of the cain books, the last story arc really doesn't match the shadowlight's saga

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Its Mad Max meets Honorguard Meets Ciaphas Cain

Revisado: 03-29-21

For those who thought books 2 and 3 were lacking, book 4 is absolutely amazing and completely justifies cain's reputation (whether he believes so or not)

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