"Military Unit goes back in time" type books???
"Military Unit goes back in time" type books???
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IanH755

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140 months

Saturday 29th November
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Hi All,

I've already read the following already so has anyone got anything else they can recommend of any military unit sent back in time to anywhere from say, dinosaurs to WW2, doesn't matter to me?

  • John Birmingham - Axis of Time trilogy - Loved the series which got better and better and really like the authors other work.
  • John Schettler - Kirov trilogy - started off very good but rapidly died off through the series.
  • Harry Turtledove - Guns of the South - Love most of the authors other works, this one was harder to get into for me (also World War series is amazing!).
  • Eric Flint - 1632 series - first few books were OK, more about societal change really with no real modern military unit stuff, but rapidly died off.
  • Stephen Stirling - Nantucket series - Again, strong start, but rapidly dropped off and, again, concentrates more on societal change than military.
  • James Erwin - Rome, Sweet Rome - exactly what I'm after, only its just a short story on Reddit with nothing ever published due to a rights issue I think.
  • Frank Lean - Viking Bloodbath - UK based story, very good but became a one off book rather than the planned series so quite short/undeveloped because of that.
  • Michael Williamson - A long time until now series - Bought these two books, haven't read them yet.

Austin Prefect

1,384 posts

12 months

Sunday 30th November
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Technically parallel universe rather than back in time but look at Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series.

croyde

25,161 posts

250 months

Sunday 30th November
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Axis of Time trilogy.

I loved them, I'm going to dig them out again.

IanH755

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2,526 posts

140 months

Sunday 30th November
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Austin Prefect said:
Technically parallel universe rather than back in time but look at Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series.
Thanks - I was initially interested until I saw the story was set on an alternate earth where humans didn't exist, but I'll give it a look over, worse case it's a only a few £ wasted or best case I love it!

Austin Prefect

1,384 posts

12 months

Sunday 30th November
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IanH755 said:
Austin Prefect said:
Technically parallel universe rather than back in time but look at Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series.
Thanks - I was initially interested until I saw the story was set on an alternate earth where humans didn't exist, but I'll give it a look over, worse case it's a only a few £ wasted or best case I love it!
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