by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 26, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 20 “There’s one other thing,” Asilos said, hesitantly. Her fingers began hunting for a written message, even as she relayed the gist of the thing. “The chief medico over at Tecumseh has asked permission...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 24, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 19 “No time,” Mrs. Miranda replied. “‘They’ll be along,’ said the man who took our oaths of enlistment.” “No basic training . . . never mind, silly question.” The old woman...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 21, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 18 CHAPTER SEVEN “In the first assault on Vicksburg, Grant’s theory (when an enemy is disorganized an assault will overwhelm him) broke down, because he failed to realize that a mob of men entering an entrenched...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 19, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 17 *** With three small moons, Hecate, Eris, and Bellona, tides were generally lesser on Terra Nova than on Old Earth. There were odd exceptions, as when all three moons were in position to pull together, but on a normal day...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 17, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 16 “As to how we’re going to do that, sir, let me show you the port as you’ve said, and then let me lead you to the engineer. He’s shown me how.” “Anglian, right?” “Yes, sir, but...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 14, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 15 CHAPTER SIX “Therefore, the best warfare strategy is to attack the enemy’s plans, next is to attack alliances, next is to attack the army, and the worst is to attack a walled city. Laying siege to a city is only...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 12, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 14 Log Base Alpha, so called, Balboa Province, Balboa Avilar was still away, taking care of some details with graves registration and seeing to the men put in hospital. He’ll be along within an hour or so, Tribune...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 10, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 13 At least that was what happened when the maniple Cruz was accompanying was hit from the flank by a unit–hell, was it even a platoon?–of Tauran paras. The maniple commander went down quickly, followed by the...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 7, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 12 CHAPTER FIVE “In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat.” –Samuel Butler, Hudibras Estado Mayor, Sub camp C, Ciudad Balboa, Balboa Carrera sat on a camp stool set up on a low dais,...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 5, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 11 HAMS Typhoon, South of Cristobal, Shimmering Sea Alone in his suite–spacious by shipboard standards, and prettified a bit, but still gray paint over cold steel–where he could expect not to be disturbed, Janier...
by Drak Bibliophile | Sep 3, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 10 CHAPTER FOUR “War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come...
by Drak Bibliophile | Aug 31, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 09 The Sumeri shook his head, saying, “Nothing beyond what I’ve already sent you.” “Any chance it’s all a fake,” asked Fernandez, “or a mere distraction?” “No way for me to...
by Drak Bibliophile | Aug 29, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 08 “Every time I allow somebody to fire,” Arosamena told Jimenez, “that firing battery’s life in measurable in minutes. I never saw or anticipated what that kind of air superiority could do. I’m...
by Drak Bibliophile | Aug 27, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 07 CHAPTER THREE “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guessing what was at the other side...
by Drak Bibliophile | Aug 24, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 06 Landing Zone / Drop Zone Trixie, Cristobal Province, Balboa Ammunition was still highly limited, for the batteries of the Fallschirm-artillerie Bataillon, so the half dozen Sachsen-manned 105mm guns, from their position at...