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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison is excellent and fits your requirements: grunt's perspective in a larger conflict. There are sequels, but I have not read them.
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_Bill the Galactic Hero_ is mordant satire, and intended in part as a response to Robert A. Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_. (Harrison's politics are rather far removed from Heinlein's.)
The protagonist is an ignorant hick on a backwoods planet, suckered into joining up, and finds himself in a questionable war, serving under officers who
start at incompetent and degrade from there to mentally defective.
I suppose it's military SF, but it's not what I recommend to folks who
like the genre.
Yes, there are sequels, but I don't consider them worth reading. Harrison's publisher wanted a series, and Harry discovered he could create one with a fair bit of cut and paste and repetition from previous books. I like Harry, and I'm happy he could get paid for it, but I can't read the results.
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Dennis