Go Tell The Spartans

Description for GO TELL THE SPARTANS by Jerry Pournelle and S M Stirling:

STRANGER, GO AND TELL THE SPARTANS THAT WE LIE HERE, OBEDIENT TO THEIR COMMANDS.

Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. but now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm from their final battle. With Earth doomed, mankind's sole hope for a future worth having rests on a planet called Sparta, a planet where American Idealists have raised once more the banner of a liberty that has been forgotten amid the corruptions and tyrannies of Earth.

The Spartans know that they must be strong to survive; that is why they hired John Christian Falkenberg and his Legion to train them. What the Spartans do NOT know is that Falkenberg's enemies have become their own---that Grand Senator Bronson's techno-ninja will follow the Legion to Sparta, and there wreak a terrible vengeance aimed at ending the Spartan experiment before it has fairly begun...