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World War 3
Strong spine with light creases. Bright clean cover has light rubbing along spine and edges. Text is perfect. Same day shipping First Class from AZ.
- GenresMilitary Fiction
328 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 1979
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August 25, 2014
I'd forgotten about this one, but it's something that bears re-reading. It came out at roughly the same time as Sir John Hackett's "The Third World War", and is in some ways a companion piece--- lots of focus on the hardware of the start of the 1980s, though with a much less upbeat ending (it ends with the missile carrying submarines of the Royal Navy and the US and Soviet fleets launching their missiles). It's written as a political/military projection, so don't look for characters or any real human issues--- but even now, thirty-odd years and a vast political sea-change later, it's worth reading as an exercise in military possibilities and a reminder of how bleak the world seemed in the early 1980s.
June 15, 2016
This book is very much of its time. Written when the doomsday projectionists of the 1970s liked to imagine the very worse of the Cold War in the coming decade. And from their time scape of the late 70s and even in the opening years of the 1980s, it did seem that much of their worse expectations could be realised.
This book is not as polished as Hackett's 'The Third World War' though it does come as a nice package which offers a similar though different vein as the more famous projectionist book. Written before Clancy and Coyle imagined their own mid 1980s crossing of the Fulda Gap by the Soviet hoards, this book at times could seem dull and dry in contrast to a 'Team Yankee' or 'Red Storm Rising'. They are different types of books though if you enjoyed them, then this book would be an interesting and sobering read.
It is in many ways a serious imagining of the potentials for the then new technologies and the futurist predictions of what the fall out would be should a total war emerge between two vast Empires and their proxies. Like many books of this nature it is grim and cold, it gives you no heroes or narrative and simply paints the future as though it is a coming history.
A good read if you are a fan of this genre. An especially good read if you could go back to 1978 and see the World through the eyes of many did then.
70%
This book is not as polished as Hackett's 'The Third World War' though it does come as a nice package which offers a similar though different vein as the more famous projectionist book. Written before Clancy and Coyle imagined their own mid 1980s crossing of the Fulda Gap by the Soviet hoards, this book at times could seem dull and dry in contrast to a 'Team Yankee' or 'Red Storm Rising'. They are different types of books though if you enjoyed them, then this book would be an interesting and sobering read.
It is in many ways a serious imagining of the potentials for the then new technologies and the futurist predictions of what the fall out would be should a total war emerge between two vast Empires and their proxies. Like many books of this nature it is grim and cold, it gives you no heroes or narrative and simply paints the future as though it is a coming history.
A good read if you are a fan of this genre. An especially good read if you could go back to 1978 and see the World through the eyes of many did then.
70%
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