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Old 04-04-2015, 06:34 AM   #22049
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Just finished "Ranks of Bronze" by David Weber, bought a very long time ago from Baen. A defeated Roman legion in the 1st century BCE is sold as mercenaries to a trading house in a galactic federation whose laws prohibit the use of advanced technology on primitive planets, and fight a series of battles against various opponents, all the while planning how they might be able to get back home again. Excellent military SF. Recommended.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/se...lternative.htm

If you liked that one there is another book set in the same universe. The Excalibur Alternative is by David Weber.
Weber expanded a short story, "Sir George and the Dragon," which appeared in the David Drake anthology Foreign Legions.
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