The Spacetime War

The Spacetime War by Les Johnson is a space opera stand-alone. 

On leave from the British Commonwealth Space Navy, Captain Winslow Price he decided to take a cruise on a space cruiser. When the ship a crew attempts a hijacking, he is in the right place to help. Also on board and having the same idea as him - to secure the engine to disable the ship so authorities can find them - India Space Force Captain Anika Ahuja has already taken out a couple of the hostiles. 

When an unknown ship attacks a colony world, both captains will find themselves at war with an unknown enemy who is apparently bent on taking out all human life in the universe. 

Johnson has written a great space opera with the feel of an Honor Harrington / Manitcore novel from David Weber. Fans of science fiction, buy this book today!

Johnson, Les. (2021). The Spacetime War. New York: Baen. 

Regeneration

Regeneration by Pat Barker is the story of the effects of war on soldiers. It is the first book in a trilogy following the same men from their time under the care of a psychiatrist through the end of World War I. 

In 1917 Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and war hero, refuses to continue serving in the war due to the senseless slaughter. He is classified as mentally unsounds and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland. 

Psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers is in charge of helping a cast of soldiers in various degrees of trauma from the war. He believes in the controversial idea that men should talk about the things that happened to them instead of pushing down their feelings. 

Based on actual people, Barker has created the story of what war does to the people who fight it. She challenges the relationship between doctor and patient, between classes, between men and women, and between men and men. 

This book should be required reading. 

Book two is The Eye in the Door, and book three The Ghost Road. 

Barker, Pat. (1991). Regeneration. New York: Plume.