Take the Shilling: 1 (The Confederated Worlds)

Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict.-Analog on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. Taking the shilling-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promised both.But despite the soldiers skills implanted in his brain combat still threatened to destroy him in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades demoralized by a spiral of atrocities could Tomas learn what he needed to survive before facing his wars ultimate challenge?