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Pournelle wrote one called "Janissaries". I could not put it down. Contains a lot of food for thought. But the sequels were not all that great.

That was fun and I learned that I need some new books. We will have to do this on rifle books someday. Thanks to all.

Another vote for Ron Forsyth's book. Absolutely first rate, and so little known.

He was a major contributor on shotgun ballistic questions, in the earlier days of the old board.

I'm now deep into my first reading of Earth Abides and am fascinated.

For an entertaining take on weapons and tactics in a post-apocalypse scenario, I liked Robert Edmond Alter's Path To Savagery. An interesting treatment of a single-shot rifle as a perfect foraging and survival tool can be found in Oliver Lange's Vandenburg, also later published with another title that now escapes my CRS. No Blade of Grass (UK, author lost in my CRS) has a gunsmith/gunshop owner as a character but no real gunsmithing interest per se.
Regards, Joe

Although O'Brian is best known for his Napoleonic Wars sea stories, he also wrote IMO the very best biolgraphy of Pablo Picasso. I frankly didn't give a hoot about PP but while reading the sea stories I learned of the bio and bought it just to see what it was like. I was impressed, not so much with PP who was (arguably justifiably) a colossal egotist, but with O'Brian's writing.

IMO O'Brian was the epitome, the ne plus ultra(L, than which there is no better), of a historical novelist and captivating storyteller.
Regards, Joe