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Terran Strike Marines #5
Gott Mit Uns
Terran Strike Marines fight for victory. No matter the odds. No matter the cost.
The final battle against the Kesaht begins.
Lieutenant Hoffman and the exhausted Marines of Valdar's Hammer are called upon to make a desperate assault against the enemy's home world. But the foe is prepared, and their planet is a death trap.
While the Strike Marines fight for their lives, the fabled ship Breitenfeld remains captured by the Ibarra Nation, and the Ember War hero Valdar languishes in a cell. The ship and her Captain are held on a strange world of the Ibarra's design, and only the Hammers can free them.
Hoffman and his Strike Marines have fought from the icy wastes of Koen, to the jungles of Eridu, and even deep into the heart of a shattered moon, but their final mission will demand a price in blood.
Read by Luke Daniels.
The final battle against the Kesaht begins.
Lieutenant Hoffman and the exhausted Marines of Valdar's Hammer are called upon to make a desperate assault against the enemy's home world. But the foe is prepared, and their planet is a death trap.
While the Strike Marines fight for their lives, the fabled ship Breitenfeld remains captured by the Ibarra Nation, and the Ember War hero Valdar languishes in a cell. The ship and her Captain are held on a strange world of the Ibarra's design, and only the Hammers can free them.
Hoffman and his Strike Marines have fought from the icy wastes of Koen, to the jungles of Eridu, and even deep into the heart of a shattered moon, but their final mission will demand a price in blood.
Read by Luke Daniels.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 14, 2019
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About the author
Richard Fox
165 books616 followersRichard Fox is a Nebula Award nominated author, and winner of the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy novel, author of The Ember War Saga, a military science fiction and space opera series, and other novels in the military history, thriller and space opera genres.
He lives in fabulous Las Vegas with his incredible wife and three boys, amazing children bent on anarchy.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) much to his surprise and spent ten years on active duty in the United States Army. He deployed on two combat tours to Iraq and received the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.
The Ember War Saga:
1. The Ember War
2. The Ruins of Anthalas
3. Blood of Heroes
4. Earth Defiant
5. The Gardens of Nibiru
6. Battle of the Void
7. The Siege of Earth
8. The Crucible
9. The Xaros Reckoning
Terran Armored Corps
1. Iron Dragoons
2. The Ibarra Sanction
3. The True Measure
4. A House Divided
5. The Last Aeon
6. Ferrum Corde
Terran Strike Marines
1. The Dotari Salvation
2. Rage of Winter
3. Valdar's Hammer
4. The Beast of Eridu
5. Gott Mit Uns
The Exiled Fleet:
1. Albion Lost
2. The Long March
3. Finest Hour
4. Point of Honor
The Terra Nova Chronicles
1. Terra Nova
2. Bloodlines
3. Wings of Redemption
4. Hale's War
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He lives in fabulous Las Vegas with his incredible wife and three boys, amazing children bent on anarchy.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) much to his surprise and spent ten years on active duty in the United States Army. He deployed on two combat tours to Iraq and received the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.
The Ember War Saga:
1. The Ember War
2. The Ruins of Anthalas
3. Blood of Heroes
4. Earth Defiant
5. The Gardens of Nibiru
6. Battle of the Void
7. The Siege of Earth
8. The Crucible
9. The Xaros Reckoning
Terran Armored Corps
1. Iron Dragoons
2. The Ibarra Sanction
3. The True Measure
4. A House Divided
5. The Last Aeon
6. Ferrum Corde
Terran Strike Marines
1. The Dotari Salvation
2. Rage of Winter
3. Valdar's Hammer
4. The Beast of Eridu
5. Gott Mit Uns
The Exiled Fleet:
1. Albion Lost
2. The Long March
3. Finest Hour
4. Point of Honor
The Terra Nova Chronicles
1. Terra Nova
2. Bloodlines
3. Wings of Redemption
4. Hale's War
Subscribe to Richard's spam free email list and get free short stories set during the Ember War Saga (and more as they become available) at: http://eepurl.com/bLj1gf
Like him on Facebook (best place to reach him): https://www.facebook.com/Richard-Fox-...
Website: www.richardfoxauthor.com
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April 22, 2019
A good ending
Ferrum Corde and Gott Mitt Uns could of been combined into a single, slightly longer volume. Both tell a piece of the end of this part of the story. And a decent ending it is. The personal habits and bickering really make the Strike Marine books.
Ferrum Corde and Gott Mitt Uns could of been combined into a single, slightly longer volume. Both tell a piece of the end of this part of the story. And a decent ending it is. The personal habits and bickering really make the Strike Marine books.
November 20, 2019
Wow, this book really didn't resonate with me compared to the rest of the series. The only reason I'm giving it 2 stars instead of one is because it concluded a few main storylines.
To give context to my review, these books (Ember War series, Terran Armor War series, Terran Strike Marines series) have been some of my all-time favorites and I've been binge reading them for the last 6 weeks. I've rated most books in the series 5 and 4 stars.
However, I found this last installment choppy and extremely difficult to read compared to the other umpteen books. To me, it seemed like the main characters were merely hollow caricatures of themselves compared to the previous books. The dialogue seemed trite. Imagine a bad sitcom with a bad laugh track... The plot seemed to really jump around and the story seemed very inconsistent.
Also, I was NOT a big fan of the main plot of our heroes I know, that's the opposite response many of the other reviewers had... Sorry!
Even the premise of why Valdar and the Breitenfeld are being held where they are makes absolutely no sense. Why
This book is full of fluff and should only have been a short story- or, as many other reviewers have mentioned, combined with Ferrum Corde.
Look., I'll keep reading the installments in the Ember-verse as they come out because I'm a big fan. I love Richard Fox's writing and the Ember-verse has been a blast.
But you can skip this book completely and be okay.
Not recommended.
To give context to my review, these books (Ember War series, Terran Armor War series, Terran Strike Marines series) have been some of my all-time favorites and I've been binge reading them for the last 6 weeks. I've rated most books in the series 5 and 4 stars.
However, I found this last installment choppy and extremely difficult to read compared to the other umpteen books. To me, it seemed like the main characters were merely hollow caricatures of themselves compared to the previous books. The dialogue seemed trite. Imagine a bad sitcom with a bad laugh track... The plot seemed to really jump around and the story seemed very inconsistent.
Also, I was NOT a big fan of the main plot of our heroes I know, that's the opposite response many of the other reviewers had... Sorry!
Even the premise of why Valdar and the Breitenfeld are being held where they are makes absolutely no sense. Why
This book is full of fluff and should only have been a short story- or, as many other reviewers have mentioned, combined with Ferrum Corde.
Look., I'll keep reading the installments in the Ember-verse as they come out because I'm a big fan. I love Richard Fox's writing and the Ember-verse has been a blast.
But you can skip this book completely and be okay.
Not recommended.
August 18, 2019
Poorly written and a sloppy ending
Constant typos and mistakes, sections are definitely out of order and sometimes characters that aren't in a scene are present for a line, then sufdeny referred to as being elsewhere. Combined with huge holes in the action and plot, it makes for a poor ending.
Constant typos and mistakes, sections are definitely out of order and sometimes characters that aren't in a scene are present for a line, then sufdeny referred to as being elsewhere. Combined with huge holes in the action and plot, it makes for a poor ending.
April 25, 2019
I agree with some of the other reviews that this book could have been combined with FC. I'm old it took me a bit to remember the happenings in FC that intertwined with GMU. I do like the back and forth between characters, sounds like a group of Marines or Police. I'm a little confused as there are a few areas towards the end of the book that I'm not sure about. I didn't go back in detail to check. Marc Ibarra is called Cpt Faben when communicating with the security element in the Liberty system, but no where that I could find ever mentions where he gave him a name. I had to go back a couple of times and try to find out who this person was. The other issue was when Steuben is going to deliver the sappers kit to Garrison, he runs until he finds drunk campers and doesn't have to run all the way to the city, but then later in another chapter they are loading up into some other type of 4 wheel drive vehicle as if Steuben had never left in the first place. I have read every book in the series that has anything to do with the Ember war and I'm not stopping now!
May 7, 2019
What to say
I am not sure where I am on this book , I felt a door trying to close but at the same time a resistance and being slammed open. I enjoyed this book maybe a little more than some of the others and I am not sure why. I have enjoyed every book in The Ember War series but this one to me was just a little better. It’s good to put Valdar back on his bridge. Hoffman still doing his job but not really in it since Opal is gone. And so many other emotions.. but all said it is so worth the read..
I am not sure where I am on this book , I felt a door trying to close but at the same time a resistance and being slammed open. I enjoyed this book maybe a little more than some of the others and I am not sure why. I have enjoyed every book in The Ember War series but this one to me was just a little better. It’s good to put Valdar back on his bridge. Hoffman still doing his job but not really in it since Opal is gone. And so many other emotions.. but all said it is so worth the read..
May 4, 2019
Brilliant!
This book neatly rounds of the series,. The book overlaps and continues the tale of the Terran strike marines as rhey atempt Valdars rescue.
One of the best thing about this series is the great writing of the interaction between the charachters of the TS Marines. You also cant help but like the Ibarrans as well. It is even quite emotional as well , as the loss of a funny charachter was sad.
2020 is a long tine off for the follow up!
This book neatly rounds of the series,. The book overlaps and continues the tale of the Terran strike marines as rhey atempt Valdars rescue.
One of the best thing about this series is the great writing of the interaction between the charachters of the TS Marines. You also cant help but like the Ibarrans as well. It is even quite emotional as well , as the loss of a funny charachter was sad.
2020 is a long tine off for the follow up!
July 19, 2019
What keeps me from giving this a 5th star as I've given most if not all of the preceding books if that I thought it had too much squad banter. Seems a small thing, but it came across as filler to me and had me skipping ahead a bit on a number of occasions.
Gott Mit Uns however is a solid 4 and a good wrap-up for these characters. I'm not sure where this goes from here, as I never got into the Terra Nova books, but I'll keep an open mind toward other spin-offs.
Gott Mit Uns however is a solid 4 and a good wrap-up for these characters. I'm not sure where this goes from here, as I never got into the Terra Nova books, but I'll keep an open mind toward other spin-offs.
October 11, 2019
This series does not have to be read in order, but I would recommend you do. If you like military action sci-fi definitely but this series from Richard Fox/Scott Moon on your TBR list. Book 5 did not disappoint. Funny, snarky and serious all at the same time Gott Mit Uns continues the incredible story of one squad saving the universe. This is done without making the characters being over the top invincible. Great job guys, thanks.
June 24, 2019
Shew what a ride!
I did not think it was possible but I believe Terran Strike Marines is as good or maybe even better than the OG Ember War series. It was a perfect mix of humor, action and world building. Not to mention that the characters are an outstanding mix that works great together. We need the strike Marines to continue.
I did not think it was possible but I believe Terran Strike Marines is as good or maybe even better than the OG Ember War series. It was a perfect mix of humor, action and world building. Not to mention that the characters are an outstanding mix that works great together. We need the strike Marines to continue.
April 21, 2019
Not sure it was the end I expected but the story was good once I had got over the initial overlap with previous book. The characters and plot worked well . You can see the next story line being developed so it be interesting to see how that picks up the threads.
May 19, 2019
Robert's Review
Outstanding, always like the action I find in the Brietenfeld and her Strike Marines. Always good to read about the Ibarran nation and the Terrans, one these days those two outfits will get back together... Thanks for a GoodRead.
Outstanding, always like the action I find in the Brietenfeld and her Strike Marines. Always good to read about the Ibarran nation and the Terrans, one these days those two outfits will get back together... Thanks for a GoodRead.
September 18, 2019
Great book
If you have been reading all the books in the Ember War series this is a very good book that helps finalize some of the series and opens the door for the future. I really enjoyed reading this book and I can't wait for the continuation
If you have been reading all the books in the Ember War series this is a very good book that helps finalize some of the series and opens the door for the future. I really enjoyed reading this book and I can't wait for the continuation
March 17, 2021
Enjoyable series.
I've read the entire Terran Strike Marine series (as well as Ember War Saga 1, and 2 [Terran Armor Corps] and the Terra Nova Chronicles) and have enjoyed them all.
Looking forward to more material in the future.
I've read the entire Terran Strike Marine series (as well as Ember War Saga 1, and 2 [Terran Armor Corps] and the Terra Nova Chronicles) and have enjoyed them all.
Looking forward to more material in the future.
October 6, 2022
MARVELOUS!
This book was rife with one liners that made me laugh out loud. It also made me cry. The entire series has been a joy to read. A great SYFY adventure.
A must read!!
Many thanks to Fox and Scott… well done, we’ll done!
This book was rife with one liners that made me laugh out loud. It also made me cry. The entire series has been a joy to read. A great SYFY adventure.
A must read!!
Many thanks to Fox and Scott… well done, we’ll done!
April 30, 2019
Great story!
Another home run in the Ember War universe. This has been such a fast paced series, I want to go back and read them again.
Another home run in the Ember War universe. This has been such a fast paced series, I want to go back and read them again.
May 9, 2019
Fantastic
Well that was a fantastic daffodils not put it down. Hopefully this is not the last time we will hear about It Hoffman
Well that was a fantastic daffodils not put it down. Hopefully this is not the last time we will hear about It Hoffman
June 4, 2019
Another great book. Looking forward to yhe next one.
July 8, 2021
Outstanding Reading!
I thoroughly enjoy the little details. The author keeps the storyline straight even as it weaves from series to series. Very enjoyable reading!
I thoroughly enjoy the little details. The author keeps the storyline straight even as it weaves from series to series. Very enjoyable reading!
October 30, 2021
Five brilliant quality books that came alive
Five brilliant quality books that came alive and draws you into their situation and story Five of the best books I have ever read
Five brilliant quality books that came alive and draws you into their situation and story Five of the best books I have ever read
July 18, 2023
Fox pens another winner. Closing out the Strike Marines sub series. Just nonstop excitement from cover to cover.
Cannot recommend the Ember War series to anyone interested in sci-fi.
Cannot recommend the Ember War series to anyone interested in sci-fi.
October 2, 2024
great book love the story and the narration I highly recommend listening to this book and the rest of the series 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 this is the second time I have listened to it 😀👍
March 21, 2025
Excellent series.
Great use of 1970's era lore and humor. Good design of the work to present the fog of war. Strong characters with depth and empathic understanding for the reader.
Great use of 1970's era lore and humor. Good design of the work to present the fog of war. Strong characters with depth and empathic understanding for the reader.
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