sentences:  In the end he decides that he has given the military his life, and will not give them his death as well.The third volume concerns itself mainly with the difficulties of a reluctant leader (Mandella) being the officer for a group of soldiers totally estranged from his version of humanity - still human, but genetically engineered and both created and born "in vitro".Involving more combat (especially in space) than the other volumes, it also resolves the end of the Terran-Tauran war.