War of Honor

Honor Harrington, Book 10

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 35 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

No one wanted another war.

Thomas Theisman didn't. Not after risking his life to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution.

Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly happy with the war he had. No one was shooting anyone else at the moment, and his government could continue to milk all those "hostilities only" tax measures for their own partisan projects.

His Imperial Majesty Gustav didn't. Now that the fighting between the Star Kingdom and the Havenites had ended, the Andermani Emperor had his own plans for Silesia.

Protector Benjamin didn't. His people had made too deep a commitment to the Manticoran Alliance to risk seeing it all thrown away.

And Honor Harrington certainly didn't. The Salamander knew too much about how much war cost.

Unfortunately, what they wanted didn't matter....

A Note from Author David Weber
There's been some confusion—not to say, um, energetic debate, readers and fans being readers and fans—about the correct pronunciation of "Manticoran." The truth, alas, is that a stitch was dropped. An error occurred. A mistake was made… and it wasn't Audible's fault. It was mine. Before Audible recorded the very first Honor Harrington book, narrator Allyson Johnson and I not only corresponded by e-mail but actually spoke to one another by phone. She wanted to make absolutely certain she had the correct pronunciations for names, places, star nations, etc., and I tried to make certain all of her questions were answered. And so they were. Unfortunately, at some point in the process, I replied to one of her e-mails by telling her that "Man-ti-core-ahn" was pronounced "Man-tik-er-ahn." Exactly how this happened is more than I can say at this point, except to blushingly disclose that the original e-mail remains intact, confirming to all the world that it was, indeed, my fault. I can ascribe it only to a temporary mental hiccup on my part and crave your forgiveness. If, however, you must blame someone for the mix-up, that someone should be me and not Audible, who have done everything they could to get it right.

Listen to another Honor Harrington adventure.

©2003 David Weber (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"With War of Honor coming in at over 800 pages, Weber has room to expand subplots and secondary characters and bring to the reader a feeling of depth and completeness seldom seen in science fiction novels. Favorite characters from past stories return, many of them growing in stature from unimportant secondary characters to major players in the 'Honorverse.' Weber serves up trouble in Silesia, the excitement of a new wormhole junction, scheming in Manticorian politics, strange events deep in Peep territory, and plenty of exploding spaceships - and, as publisher Jim Baen says, "We like exploding spaceships." (Amazon.com review)

I really enjoy this series!

Would you listen to War of Honor again? Why?

Yes, right before the newest book comes out I like to listen to the series again.

What other book might you compare War of Honor to and why?

I really couldn't say what book, but it reminds me of Elizabeth Moon's "Vatta's War" series. Both strong female leads, saving the galaxy by just doing what needs to be done.

Have you listened to any of Allyson Johnson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I've listen to her performances in this series and have enjoyed them all. And I really like the fact that the author took the blame for the mispronunciation of "Man-tik-er-ahn."

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Greed, Betrayal, Anger...War!

Continuing and setting up the rest of the story

loved the narrator! she is always excellent with the number of characters in every scene y

good story

good story, very well narrated, but action never the end could have been more descriptive.

Setting things up.

This book does a nice job of setting things up for the next part of the saga. It's a little slow and ponderous but thats just me.

Previous reviews are incorrect.

What made the experience of listening to War of Honor the most enjoyable?

I held off for months in getting this installment of the Honor Harrington series due to previous reviews. I found the book to be far better than those review have you believe. The performance is excellent the story is long but in no way tedious to listen to. If I had read the book instead of listening while I commute, it may have seemed tedious. The story flows and has new plot points and twists.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Tree Cats

Have you listened to any of Allyson Johnson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

As usual Allyson Johnson put in a wonderful performance.

Great Series

If you could sum up War of Honor in three words, what would they be?

Engaging, suspenseful story

What was one of the most memorable moments of War of Honor?

The end of peace talks and how that came to be.

Have you listened to any of Allyson Johnson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, and I like having a consistent reader across the series.

And the Salamandar goes on

Obviously you're already a David Weber fan, and an Honorverse afficionado or you wouldn't be even considering this book. If this is the first book in the Honorverse you're thinking of listening to, STOP. Go back to "On Basilisk Station" and start with book one; and I envy you the journey of your first read (listen) of this remarkable series. I literally stumbled into that first book shortly after it came out in paperback while I was in a used book store; and I've been hooked ever since.

This tenth book is more than 800 pages and has so many plots, sub plots, primary, secondary and tertiary characters all headed... somewhere... at different speeds and with different agendas that it's impossible to summarize it all. The Sol system and Frontier Security are rapidly being manipulated into becoming major players. Mesa is pulling strings as fast as it can identify puppets. And you'll have to listen to find out what else is going on.

But do listen. It just doesn't get any better than this. David Weber is the best in the business at the top of his form.

Very political

Very political with less destruction and death. Would have preferred more battles in involving the Andries. Thank you

Honor Harrington Universe Book 14

"Damn Politicians"

The Highridge government decided that war is over and they started disarming, they sopped construction of new ships, send on half pay more than 2/3 of the navy.

Newsies decided to run the story of Honor Harrington's and Hamish Alexander's affair, which irritates everyone.

The new government thinks that their partners by Star Alliance are second rate, and the treaties may be broken without any consequence.

PRH meanwhile finally established something like a democratic government without any Nepotism in the system, and the sails of PRH finally caught some wind.

Everybody agreed that better to have bad peace than Good War, unfortunately ambitions of some people do not agree to this assessment, so during the peace get ready for war.

One new conduit to manticoran wormhole is explored please try to guess where it leads?

PS
Dear HHU FANS, i WISH TO CONFIRM A FEW THINGS.
I HOPE WE AGREE THAT PREVIOUS BOOKS WERE EITHER "GOOD OR VERY GOOD", BUT FROM THIS BOOK ONWARDS IT BECOMES MASTERPIECE!!!!
OVER THE YEARS HHU HAD EVERYTHING:

SPACE BATTLES
RELIGIOUS WARS
MILITARY COUP'S
CIVILIAN REBELLIONS
POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
ECONOMICAL WARFARE
LOVE AFFAIRS AND TRAGEDIES
STRATEGIC ENCOUNTERS
TACTICAL ADVANCES
TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

BUT THIS IS THE MOMENT WHEN THEY ALL INTERTWINE AND BECOME TRUE MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!

NEXT BOOK IS "IN FIRE FORGED

The path ahead thru the fire of War.

The voices of men have stopped sounding like every man has a sore throat. The story still draws me in with the sudden turn of heart wrenching surprise and the loss of beloved characters. I enjoyed the listen.