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Title: Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III by Harold W. Coyle ISBN: 0-425-11042-7 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best World War III Novel Ever Written
Comment: This is the best World War III novel ever written. Harold Coyle's first novel,Team Yankee, was written in 1987. Four
years before the break up of the Soviet Union. A tank commander in Germany has to fight for his life, and that of
his crew when the Soviet Union and its allies invade West
Germany. (Officially, the Federal Republic of Germany,) and
he must defend West Germany at all costs, with the help of
the West German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, and other
NATO allies. The book begins with actual headlines of the period. The headlines being about the Iran-Iraq War, which
was still going on at the time, and others that weren't actual
but made up. There were also detailed maps. Harold Coyle's books always have lots of maps.
Rating: 5
Summary: Third World War : August 1985
Comment: There are a number of reviews here that mention the lack of 'the big picture' and 'political depth'. True. That depth was offered up in 'Third World War : August 1985' by Sir John Hackett, a senior NATO general. Hackett's tale, written in 1977, was at the other extreme; too dry and impersonal. This is the book 'A reader from Alexandria, VA' refered to when he said the missile strikes were straight out of another WWIII novel. Coyle used Hackett's WWIII as the framework upon which to hang the story of a small combat unit, fleshing out the General's big picture with a view from gunsights. Read both books for the total story and a more complete understanding of Cold War military thinking.
Rating: 5
Summary: WWIII from a Limited Perspective
Comment: Reading this book in the 21st century, this story is definitely dated. The major combatants are no longer diametrically opposed, and the concept for the novel is not as plausible as it was at the time it was written. That is the critical part, however, I really enjoyed the book. I still have my copy of Red Storm Rising and this one has earned a place on my bookshelf beside it.
Coyle does an excellent job. The story provides a minimal intro to the conflict and a minor side show with the evacuation of the servicemen's families, but the meat of the story is the telling of the combat actions. I haven't been in an M-1, so I have to assume that the details are accurate enough. However, I have driven, fired and TC'ed an M-60 during training at Knox, so I can say that the author has given a pretty good feel for the armored attitude and experience. Coyle tells the story from the perspective of company commander and based upon my own limited experiences has much of the details, as far as the operational and planning side, of command correct as well.
Given all of the above, my biggest complaint about the book was that I wanted the story to last longer; I was enjoying it too much to want it to end.
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Title: Sword Point by Harold Coyle ISBN: 0671737120 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Ten Thousand by Harold Coyle ISBN: 0671885650 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Code Of Honor by Harold Coyle ISBN: 0671510290 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Trial by Fire: A Novel by Harold W. Coyle ISBN: 0671732552 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Bright Star by Harold Coyle ISBN: 0671685430 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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