The Short Victorious War

Honor Harrington, Book 3

De: David Weber

Narrado por: Allyson Johnson

The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent.

But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power: a "short victorious war" to unite the people and fill the treasury once more. It's a card they've played often in the last half-century, always successfully, and all that stands in their way is the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its threadbare allies: enemies in the past who have always backed down.

Only this time the Peeps face something different. This time they're up against Captain Honor Harrington and a Royal Manticoran Navy that's prepared to give them a war that's far from short - or victorious.

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.©2002 David Weber (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Love these books

I love all these books. I only wish that David would continue the series. A lot of unanswered questions!

I very much enjoyed both the story and the narrato

My biggest problem with the story is that David Weber tends to get bogged down with strategy and tactics and politics. I admit that some discussion is needed to set the scene for the story to come, but Weber devotes huge chunks of the story to it which makes the story drag on and on. It was difficult to for me to get through these passages while I anticipated the story to come.

I enjoyed the narrator very much. While she was no Mel Blanc, she did a fine job with keeping the characters voices separate and distinguished from one another.

I will be buying more audio books in this series.

The war begins

The war, long threatend, begins. Honor is once again in the thick of it. And she meets her first love.

awesome

Totally awesome got to love the peeps ignorant overconfidence in sheer numerical value against the mentees totally overwhelming tech advantage

Honor!

I'm not in love with the reader, she's not terrible though. Plus, it's still Honor Harrington. I mainly came in here because I just read the author's note on Audible for the first time about the pronunciation of "Manticoran".. One of the most irritating things in these books. and I just think it's funny that he has taken responsibility for the error. Thank you for that David, I appreciate at least hearing that it is indeed wrong. I've read this book series at least four times in my youth this is my second listen through. I'm finally getting to where I don't really hear it that much every time she says it which is frequently. it just sounds wrong coming out of people's mouths. lol