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Title: A Breath of Fresh Air.
Review: "The Ten Thousand" is a breath of fresh air to what had been a stale genre- military fiction. When I began to read I braced myself for another of Harold Coyle's dull Clancy clones, yet I found myself enjoying "The Ten Thousand" immensely.The story- the fanatically anti-American leader of Germany captures nuclear weapons taken by U.S. forces from the Ukraine, forcing the U.S. Army's X Corps to fight their way across a hostile country to recover the weapons - is a welcome change from the renegade Russia scenarios that authors like Dale Brown cannot break free from.The historical allusions to Xenephon's Ten Thousand and the medieval warfare were wonderful for this ex-history major to read. Coyle clearly put some thought into this story.The only flaws to Coyle's story are his unrealistic portrayals of the decision-making process in Washington.
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