[The General 05] • Hope Renewed

Contains Books #5 and #6 The Sword and The Chosen , in the best selling General series.

The Empire of Man has fallen and a new Dark Age is upon the stars. With planets cut off and reduced to subsistence and ignorance, humanity has nearly forgotten its past greatness. But one battle computer has survived the Collapse. He is Center. And Center is determined to find and aid leaders who can return a star-faring republic to the galaxy. The first of these leaders is Raj Whitehall, a man born to be a general, and molded to retake civilization itself from the jaws of barbarism.

T he Sword

For five years Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue. With saber and bayonet he has conquered one barbarian nation after another. Now his greatest enemy is his own overlord, Barholm Clerett, who's so paranoid of Raj's victories that he is reduced to only one thought: Raj Whitehall must die.

The Chosen

Planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human-occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and the ancient battle computer known as Center work together for planetary unity. On Visager, a nation-state of vicious militarists is about to start the final war that will bring their fatal racist infection to the stars. Now two young men once at odds in war must unite and, with the aid of the disembodied voices of their mentors from the stars, stand against exporting eternal tyranny to the galaxy itself.

About the Raj Whitehall series:

“[T]old with knowledge of military tactics and hardware, and vividly described action . . . devotees of military SF should enjoy themselves.”— Publishers Weekly

“[A] thoroughly engrossing military sf series . . . superb battle scenes, ingenious weaponry and tactics, homages to Kipling, and many other goodies. High fun.”— Booklist

**About David Drake:

“[P]rose as cold and hard s the metal alloy of a tank … rivals Crane and Remarque …” – Chicago Sun-Times

“Drake couldn’t write a bad action scene at gunpoint.” – *Booklist

The General Series

*The Forge

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Hammer

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Anvil

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Steel

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Sword

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Chosen

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Reformer

S. M. Stirling

David Drake

The Tyrant

Eric Flint

David Drake

The Heretic

Tony Daniel

David Drake

The Savior

Tony Daniel

David Drake

Omnibus Editions*

*Warlord

David Drake

S. M. Stirling

Contains The Forge and The Hammer

Conqueror

David Drake

S. M. Stirling

Contains The Anvil and The Steel

Hope Reborn

David Drake

S. M. Stirling

Contains The Forge and The Hammer

Hope Rearmed

David Drake

S. M. Stirling

Contains The Anvil and The Steel