Hells March, Taylor Anderson
Hells March, Taylor Anderson
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Hell's March

Author: Taylor Anderson

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Unabridged: 22 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/27/2022


Synopsis

Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.

It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another, far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out.   

As an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can’t let its defeat stand. It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed.   

Fortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. He understands defense can only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. The lucky few will be enslaved. The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way imaginable. The only hope his new allies have is to win—and to do that, his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on the planet in its own territory. Achieving victory will take all Lewis’s imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers—and all the round shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.

About The Author

Taylor Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Destroyermen novels and the Artillerymen novels. A gunmaker and forensic ballistic archaeologist, Taylor has been a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries and is an award-winning member of the National Historical Honor Society and of the United States Field Artillery Association.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG

In the second book of the Artillerymen series, Taylor Anderson brings amazing world-building and characterization to this action-packed and suspenseful novel. It’s 1847 and almost a year after four ships carrying Americans heading to Vera Cruz, Mexico were caught in a storm and shipwrecked on an alt......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Review to follow.......more

Goodreads review by Wess

“Hell’s March” is the 2nd volume in Taylor Anderson’s new alternate history series, “The Artillerymen.” The previous volume, “Purgatory’s Shore,” set the baseline for the story: 4 ships carrying US troops and weapons to Vera Cruz, Mexico for Winfield Scott’s Mexico City campaign, in 1847, are snatch......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Not as good as the first book but still a good read. The concept has been done before of course, William Forsthen's much earlier The Lost Regiment series comes to mind as one of the best. That was based on a Civil War infantry regiment also tossed onto an alternate world and trying to recreate what t......more

Hardcore and desperate campaigning Anderson continues his saga of American soldiers (ca. 1848) battling the forces of a perverted amalgam of Roman Catholicism and Aztec beliefs and practices. War scenes are richly imagined and well conceived. Anderson is a bit like David Weber in his cast of charact......more


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Praise for Taylor Anderson and Purgatory's Shore


"Writers don't come much better than Taylor Anderson, and Purgatory's Shore is Anderson at his best."—New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell

“Anderson masterfully digs into detailed military strategy and battle action while forcing his characters to reconsider the racial biases and religious dogma of the mid-19th century. This is a must read for fans of Harry Turtledove and other alternate-history authors.”—Booklist

"The writing is first-rate and the clash of technologies is a terrific example of science fiction’s ability to ask, “what if.” Highly Recommended."—Amazing Stories

“Anderson deftly switches his military and social focus to an earlier milieu of muskets and slavery, adding new layers to the history of this alternate Earth while providing longtime fans with plenty of recognizable touches. This is a promising series starter.”—Publishers Weekly