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.bloodfor blood."A ship's chime rang over the intercom."Gentlemen, time," announced a softfemale voice.That was Admiral Yolanda Sanchez, the bloodthirstyPhilippine bitch as she was often referred to, in command of theCombined Fleet, ordering the men to their landing bays.The revels broke up, officers and senior noncoms moving briskly to join theirwaiting men and combat vehicles.As each left he used his right hand toreverently tap a pseudo-glass casing containing a folded suede blanket, blondeand still bright after many centuries.Above the blanket, fixed to the wall,was a Posleen head, its face twisted in an agonized rictus.file:///K|/eMule/Incoming/John%20Ringo%20-%20Aldenata%2007%20-%20Watch%20On%20The%20Rhine.html (346 of 353)23-12-2006 20:00:36Page 212 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlfile:///K|/eMule/Incoming/John%20Ringo%20-%20Aldenata%2007%20-%20Watch%20On%20The%20Rhine.htmlLast to leave was Mühlenkampf.Still looking at the screen in the view ofwhich a world and a civilization died, he mused softly, but as if theDarhel could hear, "The Aldenata idiot children thought they were doing onething when they fiddled with the Posleen and ended up doing something verydifferent.They were as wrong about their tampering with you Elves.But then,given both those lessons you still thought you were even more clever and thatyou could change us to suit your purposes.Now it is you getting a very different result from any you planned on."We, on the other hand, are going to change you and we will succeed.This is because our sights are set lower.We only wish to change you fromliving to extinct."I hope you are pleased with what you have created."* * *Far, far away, many parsecs in fact, the ghost of Michael Wittmann, and manyanother, too, smiled in his bier.* * *In the course of writing this collaboration we talked about the nature of thePosleen War, aka the War against the Posleen, by the hour.Tom added a fairbit to John's understanding, and of course John's interactive responses ("NoGoddammit, Tom, we can't effing crucify the Greens.""Can we hang 'em? No drop?" "Oh, all right.") added to Tom's basicthought-universe.Of course Tom is a Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry(qualified Ranger, Inspector General, Spec Ops Civil Affairs bubba, etc.)and takes all things related very seriously (Remember, you may not like theeffing IG.but the IG sure likes effing you).John likes some jokes with his mayhem.Maybe you can tell the difference.InitiallyWatch on the Rhine was "Die Wacht am Rhein" and was only going to be a long short story or a short novella, 45,000 wordstops.But Jim wanted a book.Set in the PosVerse.We decided on doing acompanionfile:///K|/eMule/Incoming/John%20Ringo%20-%20Aldenata%2007%20-%20Watch%20On%20The%20Rhine.html (347 of 353)23-12-2006 20:00:36file:///K|/eMule/Incoming/John%20Ringo%20-%20Aldenata%2007%20-%20Watch%20On%20The%20Rhine.html novella, "Back to Bataan," that would appear withDie Wacht am Rheinand would concern the Japanese defense of the Philippine Islands against thePosleen.(Which, by the way, we may still do.Time will tell.)But the story of Hans and Dieter and Anna and Gudrun.and, yes, even that Nazi bastard Krueger, kept growing.It grew until it ateall the time and space allowed for both stories.As it turned out, Jim likedthat better.And it's good to be king.Just ask him.("My writers love me.pull!" "Arrghhhh!")"But why the bloody damned SS?" the sensitive reader asks.Put simply, becausethey would be there in John's universe.Deal."But what aboutMalmedy?" Go do a Google search: "biscari sicily peiper." Let ye among you."But the concentration camps? Babi Yar? The holocaust?" To which we wouldPage 213 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlanswer, "Horrible things and the men responsible should have all been hanged.But we fail to see why those things would keep desperately needed soldiers outof action, whatever larger organization they belonged to and whatever symbolsthey wore."There is another reason, too.Dear reader, we wanted to shock the hell out ofyou.Right now, Western Civilization, however much many of its members may refuseto admit it, is involved in a world war.No, it has seen no entire citiesdestroyed; no trenches have drawn their scars across entire continents.It isa world war all the same.Moreover, it is a world war that is putting to thetest every notion of individual liberty, freedom of conscience, and rule oflaw that the West prizes.And should we lose we will see, or our grandchildrenwill, the erasure of all that is good inWestern Civilization.We cannot afford to lose.Yet winning will have its price, too [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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