Falkenberg's Legion Series by Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling

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  • Falkenberg's Legion (Falkenberg's Legion #1)
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    Falkenberg's Legion (Falkenberg's Legion #1)

    Jerry Pournelle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1990

    The seeds of contradiction that lay at the heart of the Soviet-American alliance are bearing their final fruit. Soon they will rip the Codomminium apart—and Earth will die.In the face of that inevitability the fate of humanity lies with the Colony Worlds—a few of which are equipped for more than barest survival. Thrown upon their own resources, their futures seem as limited as their pasts... more

  • Prince of Mercenaries (Falkenberg's Legion #2)
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    Prince of Mercenaries (Falkenberg's Legion #2)

    Jerry Pournelle

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1989

    For a century, the Americans and Soviets had maintained an uneasy alliance based on the CoDominium, a world order in which no other power or combination of powers could threaten their mutual hegemony. Thus did the Americans and Russians learn to live at peace with each other.But nothing lasts forever, the CoDominium's energies are nearly spent, and internal conflicts are ripping it apart... more

  • Go Tell the Spartans (Falkenberg's Legion #3)
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    Go Tell the Spartans (Falkenberg's Legion #3)

    Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1991

    Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. But now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm for their final battle. With Earth doomed, mankind's sole hope for a future worth having rests on a planet called Sparta, a planet where American idealists have raised once more the banner of a liberty that has been forgotten amid the corruptions and tyrannies of Earth.

  • Prince of Sparta (Falkenberg's Legion #4)
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    Prince of Sparta (Falkenberg's Legion #4)

    Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1993

    Defeated before, the Earth-backed Helot terrorist hordes renew their assault on the legitimate government of Sparta. And if they again face defeat, this time they have a doomsday card to play!

  • The Prince (Falkenberg's Legion #1-4)
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    The Prince (Falkenberg's Legion #1-4)

    Jerry Pournelle, S.M. Stirling

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2002

    The bestselling saga of Falkenberg's legion, complete in one huge volume, this contains stories that were originally published in four parts as "Falkenberg's Legion, Prince of Mercenaries, Go Tell the Spartans" and "Prince of Sparta."

  • The Mercenary (Falkenberg's Legion #a)
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    The Mercenary (Falkenberg's Legion #a)

    Jerry Pournelle

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1977

    Falkenberg's first lesson is that loyalty is to the fleet and not to the precarious coalition government of Earth. His second is that the navy's mission is to exist, preserving the peace in the far-flung corners of the galaxy in the hope that at least some portions of the human race may be saved when Earth destroys itself... The Mercenary is a parable for our times: the dirt of politics, the evil of war, the loneliness of command, and the rewards of comaradeship...

  • West Of Honor (Falkenberg's Legion #b)
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    West Of Honor (Falkenberg's Legion #b)

    Jerry Pournelle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1976

    Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System. But, because it fails to hold the loyalty of its soldiers, it falters at the stars... more

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