Redemption Corps

Redemption Corps - Rob Sanders
Typical unremarkable "pulp sci-fi" following Imperial Storm Troopers in the 40k universe.  A charasmatic leader must wage a war while the rival factions of the imperium vie for supremacy.
Enjoyable while you're reading it, but totally unrememberable (hence the even less revealing than normal review having read it nearly two months ago). A very easy read, being completed in a few hours or so.

Hitler's War

Hitler's War - Harry Turtledove

A credible what if, looking at how the second world war could have started early.  Follows the typical many angled telling that Turtledove commonly uses and does it well as always.
As with the Great War series, Turtledove, only tweaks minor events at the beginning and lets things run in a sort of butterfly effect. The spanish civil war is still happening, the alliances are different but plausible, France invades the Rhineland, the USSR enters the war early, Japan invades the USSR, the Nazis are desperate to keep the USA out of the war. And all it takes is the death of one individual to alter the cause of history...

Singularity Sky

Singularity Sky - Charles Stross

In a galaxy where faster than light travel is banned by a man made artificial intellgence with a tendency to overeact in it's enforcement of the edict, a technologicaly repressive regime aims to "bend" the rules when it is attacked by a superior force that drops the technology to create more or less anything into the hands of everybody on the planet, what happens when every nutter with a grudge can get his hands onto nuclear weapons or biological agents?
Caught up in this event is a UN diplomat, and a starship engineer, who must prevent the casuality violation before it leads to the deaths of millions....
A very good story,  Stross delivers another exciting sci-fi thriller...

Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire)

Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) - Michael Cobley 

The book opens onto a last ditch rearguard battle against generic "bug" aliens while  three colony ships try to make their escape, which didn't leave me with much hope.
I was soon thankfully proved wrong.  The tale rapidly moves on 150 years to the survivors of a colony ship and their struggle to survive and flourish in a hostile galaxy.
Revolves around several main characters, telling an intertwined story from several viewpoints, and does it quite well.  Not a particularly easy read but doesn't drag, plenty of different factions and alliances to get your head round though.
An interesting twist at the end, which can be spotted earlier if you pick up the clues, whether this is intentional I don't know but they're there.
Lives up to the quote on the front...

The Atrocity Archives

The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross

Daemons are real, parallel universes are real, alternate dimensions exsist. Alan Turing didn't commit suicide, what happened to him was far nastier They're all connected by mathematical formula, and magic is a function of maths.
This is the world you find yourself in, following the exploits of Bob the IT guy who once found out too much, and now asked for a transfer to field work.
He finds himself cleaning up after the SS, in a tangled web of secret agencies that make the ones you know about look like a public library.
An easy read yet thoroughly gripping, literally couldn't put this book down, didn't realise I'd already read the sequal (not reviewed it, will do if I get round to it ) but it made that make more sense.
Added short story at the end is also worth reading, but just remember the average person is allegedly caught on cctv three hundred times a day....

Azincourt

Azincourt - Bernard Cornwell
A stand alone historical novel based upon the battle of Agincourt and the events leading upto it mainly from the viewpoint of an English longbow man.
The book starts in England and gives an idea of life in the feudal system in a small village and progresses to the battlefields of France through political intrigue, aristocratic in-fighting and the odd betrayal.
Graphiclly depicts the horror along with the boredom of Henry V campaign in northern France leading up to the inevitable final showdown, which is considerably well researched and accurate without becoming boring or turning into a history lesson.
Follows Cornwell's standard formula for minor heroic central character that is skilled, abit of a rogue and gets about abit, but this just lets him write about more action and events than watching the walls of a nameless minor town while the main character scratches his arse.
Overall a good book, that teaches you some history while you enjoy it.