The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away.
Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.
Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.
Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.
http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/
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The Forlorn Hope: Battle for Stalingra
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Lord of the Isles
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Hammer's Slammers
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Bridgehead
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Killer
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The mirror of worlds: The Second Volume of 'The Crown of the Isles' (Lord of the Isles)
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THE SHARP END
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The Dragon Lord: The Defender
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Birds of Prey
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Queen of Demons: The second book in the epic saga of 'The Lord of the Isles' (Lord of the Isles)
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Queen of Demons (Isles)
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The gods return
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Paying the Piper
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With the Lightnings
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A Separate Star: A science fiction tribute honoring Rudyard Kipling
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Other Times Than Peace
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Cross The Stars (Hammer Universe)
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Ranks of Bronze
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Servant of the Dragon
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Goddess of the Ice Realm (Lord of the Isles)
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Lt Leary commanding
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Northworld
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Lord Of The Isles (Lord of the Isles 1)
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Balefires
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The Fortress of Glass: The First Volume of 'The Crown of the Isles' (Lord of the Isles)
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An Oblique Approach
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Skyripper
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The MILITARY DIMENSION: MARK II
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The Jungle
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Hammer's slammers
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Target
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Patriots
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Arc Riders
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Redliners
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Time Safari
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Counting the cost: Hammer's Slammer's
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Fireships
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The War Machine: Crisis Of Empire III
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The Jungle With Clash by Night
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Tyrannosaur
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The Reformer (The Raj Whitehall Series, Book 7)
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With the lightnings
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Cross the stars
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Tommy Powers and the Mutant Stranger
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Seas of Venus
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Tommy Powers and the Replicator of Rio Azul
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Servant of the Dragon (Lord of the Isles)
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The reaches
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Igniting the reaches
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Grimmer than hell
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Fireships (Igniting the Reaches , No 3)
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The Warrior (Hammer's Slammers, No 5)
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The Sword (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 5)
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Lord of the Isles (Lord of the Isles Ser., Vol. 1)
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Northworld 27fl
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Mistress of the catacombs
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The Square Deal: Car Wars #1 (Car Wars)
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Caught in the Crossfire Display
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The Forge (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 1)
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At Any Price (Hammer's Slammers #2)
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Vengeance (Northworld, No. 2)
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Diamonds, Dust, and Death
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What Distant Deeps
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The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 1 (Complete Hammer's Slammers)
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The voyage
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The dragon lord
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Paying The Piper (Hammer's Slammers Series)
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Harold Coyle's Team Yankee: the graphic novel
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Starliner
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The Tank Lords
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Crisis of empire
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Enemy Of My Enemy
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From the heart of darkness
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The Anvil (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 3)
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Servant of the Dragon
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Das Reich der Inseln 4. Die Königin der Dämonen
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The Way to Glory
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Hunter Returns
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Justice (Northworld, 3)
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Lacey and His Friends
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Northworld:just 35mfl
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Ranks of Bronze
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Some Golden Harbor (RCN - Lt. Leary, Book 5)
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Tommy Powers and the Sage of the Calibrators
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Goddess of the ice realm
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The road of danger
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At Any Price
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Der Herr der Inseln 2. Der Thron von Malkar
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Out of the waters
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She Hulk Ceremony (She Hulk Ceremony)
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Birds of Prey
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The complete Hammer's slammers
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Rolling Hot: Hammers Slammers #4
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The Way to Glory (RCN)
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The Tank Lords (Hammer's Slammer's)
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In the Stormy Red Sky (RCN)
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When the Tide Rises (Lt. Leary)
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When the tide rises
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The Dragon Lord Display
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ARC riders
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