Commentary is good.

[lederhosen]

...readers wanting more detail are referred to Broedenour's thirty-seven volume work Waaargh! and Peace: The Siege of Perlia and its Neighbouring Systems. (Had the author of this magisterial work not been tragically killed by a toppling library stack before its completion it would undoubtedly be regarded as the definitive work on the subject. As it is, it remains an unsurpassed work of reference for anyone interested in the minutiae of the first nine weeks of the two-year campaign.

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The gunboats of the local Space Defence Forces took a heavy toll in every case, weakening the attacks on Savia, Metrium and Sodallagain¹ to the point where the local Planetary Defence Forces were able to keep the savage invaders who made it to the surface of these worlds effectively contained until Naval and Imperial Guard units arrived to turn the tide.

1. A remote system apparently named by a very bored explorator some time in M23.

- 'Death Or Glory', Sandy Mitchell.

Comments

[cerebralsilicate.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Heh. I think I should get this book.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like it (and the previous three in the series, which are collected in 'For The Emperor'). FTE suffers a bit from using much the same plot for all three stories, but it's still fun for that.

And reading further, I've just come across a random Goodies reference...

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Beg pardon, the collection is 'Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium'; FTE is the first of three novels collected in that. They do suffer from a bit too much repetition, but still quite fun.