Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Fifth Battalion

The Fifth Battalion

Priv, Michael

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN10: 1097199991
ISBN13: 9781097199990
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 7 2019
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Fifth Battalion is a story of Norman Bolstad, a gunnery sergeant of an ancient failed invasion of Earth, currently eking a living as a lab technician in San Francisco. Over 5,000 years ago, Baltizor Confederacy attempted to establish a base on Earth, unaware of their arch-enemy, the Murabi Empire, already using this remote planet as a prison facility for their most incorrigible criminals, serving the forever dead sentence. The entire Baltizor advance contingent was wiped out by the prison guards. As a part of their sentence, the prisoners of Earth had been forcibly stripped of any awareness of their immortal spiritual nature. The convicts believe themselves to be one-life animals, who die forever with every successive reincarnation. However, unlike the convicts of Earth, the fallen invaders, having never been sentenced and having avoided the original brainwashing treatment, retained their memory and awareness. The Baltizor POWs have been unsuccessfully attempting to escape from Earth for a very long time. The Fifth Battalion is a dynamic and intense, sometimes gory, often humorous, action-filled account of the final escape attempt from Earth, where Norman, the eternal soldier, and Linda, his eternal lover, play a major part. The Fifth Battalion is a journey from the bleakness of a dead-end existence to the brilliant splendor of spiritual awareness and understanding. The Fifth Battalion is a beautiful love story of Norman and Linda, the lovers for countless millennia. Linda is a dead-forever convict with no memory beyond current life-time. Motivated by their love, Norman and Linda through millennia in many incarnations seek out and find each other. The Fifth Battalion is a study of military tactics and, most of all, the meditation on timeless concepts of honor, duty and orders and what it truly means to be a soldier-be it a spaceship trooper, or a soldier in the WWI Belgian trenches, a Roman legionnaire, an artillery officer centuries ago, a Russian mafia goon, or the modern Special Forces. A surprising twist at the very end pounds home the message that being a soldier, a protector, reaches far beyond blind obedience to orders. The Fifth Battalion is a study of valor and duty, friendship and loyalty, love and sex, justice and punishment, thirst for power and insatiable greed, but first and foremost it is an intense action thriller with strong Sci-Fi undertones.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Science Fiction

View All