The Short Victorious War

Honor Harrington, Book 3

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent.

But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power: a "short victorious war" to unite the people and fill the treasury once more. It's a card they've played often in the last half-century, always successfully, and all that stands in their way is the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its threadbare allies: enemies in the past who have always backed down.

Only this time the Peeps face something different. This time they're up against Captain Honor Harrington and a Royal Manticoran Navy that's prepared to give them a war that's far from short - or victorious.

A Note from Author David Weber
There's been some confusion—not to say, um, energetic debate, readers and fans being readers and fans—about the correct pronunciation of "Manticoran." The truth, alas, is that a stitch was dropped. An error occurred. A mistake was made… and it wasn't Audible's fault. It was mine. Before Audible recorded the very first Honor Harrington book, narrator Allyson Johnson and I not only corresponded by e-mail but actually spoke to one another by phone. She wanted to make absolutely certain she had the correct pronunciations for names, places, star nations, etc., and I tried to make certain all of her questions were answered. And so they were. Unfortunately, at some point in the process, I replied to one of her e-mails by telling her that "Man-ti-core-ahn" was pronounced "Man-tik-er-ahn." Exactly how this happened is more than I can say at this point, except to blushingly disclose that the original e-mail remains intact, confirming to all the world that it was, indeed, my fault. I can ascribe it only to a temporary mental hiccup on my part and crave your forgiveness. If, however, you must blame someone for the mix-up, that someone should be me and not Audible, who have done everything they could to get it right.

Listen to another Honor Harrington adventure.©2002 David Weber (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

The war begins

The war, long threatend, begins. Honor is once again in the thick of it. And she meets her first love.

awesome

Totally awesome got to love the peeps ignorant overconfidence in sheer numerical value against the mentees totally overwhelming tech advantage

A Short Victorious War

This is the third book in this series, and is building more about the leading character Honor Harrington. At times the story slows down with explaining details about the society or Naval ships but I guess when you are creating it all from your imagination you need to give people some understanding to build on. If you like stories with strong women roles this is a book for you.

Great book

Full of action and romance. I highly recommend this series. Each book gets better and better.

Drastic tempo change

While the 3rd installment is just as good as the previous two, I can't help but feel like I've missed something. Although, knowing how Mr. Weber compiled the past titles, I imagine I will find out on book number four. Curious....

Love these books

I love all these books. I only wish that David would continue the series. A lot of unanswered questions!

I very much enjoyed both the story and the narrato

My biggest problem with the story is that David Weber tends to get bogged down with strategy and tactics and politics. I admit that some discussion is needed to set the scene for the story to come, but Weber devotes huge chunks of the story to it which makes the story drag on and on. It was difficult to for me to get through these passages while I anticipated the story to come.

I enjoyed the narrator very much. While she was no Mel Blanc, she did a fine job with keeping the characters voices separate and distinguished from one another.

I will be buying more audio books in this series.

Narrator getting better

I liked the intrigue, the action and the science. Reminded me of a battle at sea between two sailing ships.

More exciting action for Honor

The narrator was good. I wasn't a fanb of her Honor in the first book but she has grown on me, and her accents are great.

great read,

good book, great narrorator engaging and mysterious. great action. as always. characters were great too.