THE RED GAMBIT SERIES

Hi all. I would be very interested to understand about reader's favourites, be it people or events. If you have a favourite piece of combat, or someone you feel partiocularly drawn to, please type a few words here, just letting me know why. Thanks very much. It will help me with the future development of persons unknown :-)

My favroite scenes would have to be the ones involving massive mumbers of men and machines slugging it out in one huge battle, such as the gigantic naval and air battle where the Soviets attempted to halt the passage of allied ships throught that strait (can't remember what you called it, I know Sweden was a part of it).  The sheer scale of those battles make them so much fun to read, in my opinion.

Fair. I enjoy writing bioth the grand stuff [Stuttgart and Barnstorf for instance], as well as the smaller actions.

I do enjoy the detail you put into the close quarters work. I am rereading the set and the Gurkha's fight with the Cossacks was very good.

Another theme I enjoy is the fallibility of the characters and how things just dont fall into the hands of the good guys. Eisenhower went down the wrong path looking for the Soviet weakness, yet a jr intel officer helped piece the engineer shortage together. All very plausible as a great alternate history should be

Thank you. I have tried to write a series that doesn't suspend reality, and that also tries to avoid the traps I remember in my youth, where one side is heroic and competent, the other bumbling and cowardly. I'm sure you know what I mean.

I decided to write combat as I understood it to be, as related to my conversations with veterans, combined with 32 years experience of the sort of damage a body can take. It seems to have worked, but its not everyone cup of tea.

I will give you a heads up that the cossack and his Shaska will return :-)

gee_colin@yahoo.co.uk at May 30, 2015 at 6:08 PM

Thank you. I have tried to write a series that doesn't suspend reality, and that also tries to avoid the traps I remember in my youth, where one side is heroic and competent, the other bumbling and cowardly. I'm sure you know what I mean.

I decided to write combat as I understood it to be, as related to my conversations with veterans, combined with 32 years experience of the sort of damage a body can take. It seems to have worked, but its not everyone cup of tea.

I will give you a heads up that the cossack and his Shaska will return :-)

Having been in the same field as you for 20 years, yes, you do manage to hit those details. The lack of "glory" in battle and the uneveness between the various units in both sides adds to the realism. In many ways it is a reflection of our fire service, we all know some companies that are superb and others that are lucky save the basement.

Glad he will return, cant wait to see how you weave him in

I alays believed that some had shares in a car park enterprise :-)