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Legacy of the Aldenata

By: John Ringo

Narrated by: Marc Vietor

Length: 25 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

In this, the sequel to A Hymn Before Battle, Captain Michael O'Neal and his forces on Earth prepare to hold back an impending Posleen invasion.

"Thanks to alien technology and sheer guts, the Terrans on two worlds fought the Posleen to a standstill. Thank God there was a moment to catch our breath, a moment, however brief, of peace.

"Now, for the survivors of the Barwhon and Diess Expeditionary Forces, it was a chance to get some distance from the blood and misery of battle against the Posleen centaurs. A blessed chance to forget the screams of the dying in purple swamps and massacres under searing alien suns."

©2002 John Ringo (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

One of my favorite books.

This bookseries are the reason I still read and listen to books. I stopped reading books 15 years ago, and started reading again 5 years ago.
This series was my way back to books, an fantastic syfi story all the way through!

I found this in 2012 and cliche as it sounds, the

characters feel very much like like old friends. There is a tremendous amount of detail and 20 years since publication it idn't feel dated..- still a great read..
The Narration deserves something special. Saying it was FANTASTIC isn’t doing it justice. There are so, so many ways he could have ruined audio book and doesn’t. It really has to be experienced to understand the quality product it is..I sense that either Mr Ringo or someone that truly loved the book was very involved in editing.
This is a Classic up there with favorites -R Heinlein, Asimov, Dick, ...on and on.

Very Good Series

This was a whole series condensed in to two books. For the most part I throughly enjoyed it and will look for more by the writer. Great narration.

A well written book?? I think so!

This book is extremely well written and performed.
The author puts genuine thought and care into the story he delivers to us. If action is your thing and a good revolving plot line with constant excitement...then this is the book for you.
Each character portrays excellently against Ringos' series. This book is a must read!!!

Amazing war book. Grounded in reality, real military SF.

Awesome. Never change JR, never change. Thanks for the story, these days we don’t get many good ones like this.

Posleen Invasion of Earth

This is a military science fiction book. I enjoyed the poems by Rudyard Kipling that started each chapter. The story wound its way between the individual lives of key people and the battle for the earth. Lots of good military information about equipment and tactics lots of heroic battles and a few laughs here and there. I hope the next book in the series covers more about some the people touched on in this story such as XO Mrs. O'Neal in her frigate.
also the O'Neal's daughter with her grandfather. The book was long but it moved right along. Marc Vietor did an excellent job narrating the story.

Extremely well produced

Narration was excellent with the story I’ve read before and the character development was good to

I may read the whole series

I buy a fair number of these military scifi books but rarely buy the second book in the series. Often I find the characters too one dimensional, the situations too far-fetched and the story too full of fighting. It may sound strange that I would complain that a war book contains too much fighting but, in fact, war is more than fighting. The underlying situation has to sound reasonable enough to believe, the characters have to seem real for me to have any empathy for them and the world outside the fighting has to be interesting for me to be able to enjoy the book. War is politics as much as fighting.

I bought the first book in this series quite some time ago and relegated this series to the same category as most other books of this type - once was enough. But about 6 months after the first read I re-read it and found, much to my surprise, that I was more interested in the characters than I had at first realized, so I bought the second book in the series.

It is the world surrounding the war that I find most interesting. The character of Michael O'Neal is interesting, the characters around him seem both realistic and worth meeting and the situation in which they find themselves, trying to save their lives in the face of an alien invasion and, at the same time, having to deal with their "allies" who cannot be trusted, to be a sufficient mix of reasonable and heroic to make the books worth reading for me. As with all of the John Ringo books I have read this one contains just the right amount of desperation and hope to leave me with a positive feeling in spite of the violence surrounding the main characters.

There are a lot of side characters whose stories do not seem to have a major effect on the main plot but I that this enriches the story. Most people's lives in time of crisis and war are important only to them and to those around them and do not affect the overall outcome. Thus, for me, the fact that there are secondary interesting characters who do not add to the main plot in a major way makes the book more realistic, not less interesting and their stories add flavor to the book and keeps it from being all war.

The narration is very good and the story flows well. I may read the whole series.

John ringo rules.

another great book by John ringo expertly narrated. I'm going g to buy the next book right away.

My favorite in the series and in general

Amazing story and character development. I could read and listen to it over and over.