Star Corps

7 best books like Star Corps (Ian Douglas): Farnham's Freehold, Field of Dishonor, Crooked Little Vein, The Short Victorious War, Flag in Exile, What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It, Stark's Command

Farnham's Freehold

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN	1416520937

Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl...

Field of Dishonor

Author	David Weber
ISBN	0743435745

HONOR BETRAYED

The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious.

But Manticore has domestic problems of its...

Crooked Little Vein

Author	Warren Ellis
ISBN	0060723939

Burned-out private detective and self-styled shit magnet Michael McGill needed a wake-up call to jump-start his dead career. What he got was a virtual cattle prod to the crotch, in the form of an impossible assignment delivered directly from the president's heroin-addict chief of staff. It seems...

The Short Victorious War

Author	David Weber
ISBN	0671875965

The proles are revolting.
The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent.

But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power; another short, victorious war to unite the people and fill...

Flag in Exile

Author	David Weber
ISBN	0671876813

Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while she tries to heal her bitter wounds.

But...

What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It

Author	Trish Wood
ISBN	0316016705

Roughly divided into four chapters (Winners and Losers, Bringing them America, Don't Look Away and Nor Fear the Dangers of the Day), this story lets the soldiers who fought in Iraq tell their story in their own words.

The interviewees are very expertly, led by questions, but the questions themselves...

Stark's Command

Author	John G. Hemry
ISBN	0441008224

This book picks up pretty much shortly after "Stark's War" (book 1 in the trilogy) leaves off. Sgt Stark, the commander of the mutinous army, now faces the kettle of fish he's opened after his take-over of the Army unit guarding the Moon colony (as a recap, in book 1, a fresh division of troops, unused to...