Falkenberg's Legions
TO: Sergeant Herman
Leich, Regular Army, U.S.A.;
and Second Lieutenant Zeneke
Asfaw,
Kagnew Battalion, Imperial Guard of
Ethiopia.
To junior officers everywhere
Author's Note
This novel is part of the series of "future histories" in which The Mote in God's Eye takes place, and it gives the early history of the events in that novel.
The battle in Part II, Chapter XIX is based in large part on the actual experience of Lieutenant Zeneke Asfaw, Ethiopian Imperial Guard, during the Korean War.