Janissaries: Clan And Crown

Janissaries: Clan And Crown by Pournelle, Jerry. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780441382965.

For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. Theyd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer, and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human - but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids.Rick has faced This place is going to be home, permanently. To create a society safe for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive. The must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Force would not be Ricks chosen method of persuasion,but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way.