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Title: Marching Through Georgia by S M Stirling ISBN: 0-671-65407-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: February, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Master Race Meets the Master Class
Comment: Marching Through Georgia is the first novel in the Draka series. In another timeline, the losers from wars in America and Europe, philosophers without followers, and other misfits migrated to the Draka Crown Colony in South Africa. Over decades the colony took over the entirety of sub-Sahara Africa and then the Balkans, becaming the sovereign Domination of Draka in 1919.
During World War II, the Domination entered the war with an airdrop onto Sicily in 1941. Six months later, the Germans had taken Moscow and the Wehrmacht in south Georgia are threatening the Draka conquests in Armenia. The Draka are assembling armored legions in Armenia to attack through the Caucasus Mountains and drop two legions of airborne at night to clear the passes of the Ossetian Military Highway. Opposing them is a panzer regiment of the Waffen-SS, Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler.
In this novel, the von Shrakenberg family are descendents of a Hessian mercenary paid off with land in southern Africa after the British lost their war against the American rebels. Karl is an Arch-Strategos, a general of the Supreme General Staff. His son Eric is Centurion of Century A, 1st Airborne Legion. His daughter Johanna is a Pilot Officer flying Eagle interceptors.
Karl is back in Castle Tarleton overlooking Archona, the capital of Draka. He is worried about Eric leading his century in the Caucasus Mountains and Johanna flying an Eagle out of Kars. He knows the North Caucasus campaign is risky, but necessary for the Domination to grow.
Century A has an American reporter, Bill Dreiser, with them as they drop into the mountains. It is his first airdrop and he is understandably nervous. As he leaps from the plane and falls, he grasps the release toggle and gives a single firm jerk.
This novel shows the personal lives of the van Shrakenberg family after the Sicily campaign in their plantation Oakenwald, intermingled with the assault on Village One along the Ossetian Military Highway. It describes the history of the Domination and the people who become the Draka. It also tells something of their serfs and their enemies.
The assault on Village One is depicted in great detail, from the first sentry taken out by the advancing Draka to the final confrontation and the subsequent relief by the Janissaries. It is a tale of a trained, experienced and well-led combat unit with excellent morale and determination. Unfortunately, they happen to be slave-holding imperialists.
This story is plausible and frightening in concept. What if the British had encouraged loyalists from the former American colonies to settle in South Africa? What if those settlers had been imperialistic and had expanded into Rhodesia a century before Cecil Rhodes? What if they continued their expansion to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa and then to the Ottomon Empire? Would the resulting state have a social structure combining the worst features of the Confederacy and the Afrikaners, but with a government more militarized and efficient than the Spartans or Prussians? Welcome to the Domination.
...The slave trade itself was banned in 1834 and this ban was enforced by British warships. However, the British hold in Africa was very lose prior to the 1880's and the taking of slaves within the African continent was not ended until 1891. Even after the Boer War, a form of non-chattel slavery remained in the practice of apartheid.
Highly recommended for Stirling fans and for anyone else who enjoys alternate history depicting ground combat in the worst of all possible worlds.
Rating: 4
Summary: Modest, but the beginning...
Comment: Well, for all intents and purposes, this novel was the most modest and simple, as far as explaning how the Draka are. However, most of it was about soldiers in battle; it could have been describing any other battle in any war in human history, just the names and technology change. When in war, we normally don't care for the other side's way of life.
Within the entire series, although simple, it's worth reading again.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty Wierd Stuff...
Comment: I originally purchased this book several years ago,and every time I sat down to read it I seemed to lose interest after a few chapters. I finally forced myself to finish the thing--not an easy task. The protaganists of the Draka are not an admirable group unless you considered Jack the Ripper admirable. The basic plot to this novel(an alternative history?)deals with the Draka invasion of Soviet Georgia in the foothills of the Caucasus mountains and the conflict with the German Reich,which has also invaded the same geographic area. The Draka are portrayed as strong,crafty,and unbeatable. The Germans are portrayed as drunken womanizers and somewhat inept at warfare , good only at beating their heads against a stone wall. Several times I threw this book in the firestarter burn basket,only to later retreive it in the hopes that I would find something of merit contained therin. Having read other books by and coauthored by S.M. Stirling that were much more enjoyable than this one turned out,I was very dissapointed in this one.
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Title: The Stone Dogs by S.M. Stirling ISBN: 0671720090 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Drakas! by S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0671319469 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Drakon by S.M. Stirling ISBN: 0671877119 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Against the Tide of Years by S. M. Stirling, S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0451457439 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0451456750 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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