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Cargando... Team Yankee (1987)por Harold Coyle
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Harold Coyle's first novel--follows a US Army company (about 130-150 with tanks) in action during the fictional stages of World War III. It's a very tactical view of Army operations in Germany during the 1980s. It contains lots of techno jargon incomprehensible to normal humans. Additionally, the ground over which they fought is hard to imagine as there are no maps in the audible version. The situations that were presented seemed plausible. The many characters were often hard to track. But, I'm not a tanker and don't want to be--just like the narrator. The book ended in a logical way. Action packed. ( ) If you like military/ww3/alternative history, this is a 5. Otherwise, a 4. It's a story about a short war in the 1980s between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe (Germany, specifically), focused on a company commander of a tank/mech inf combined team. I'm not sure if the original text was flawed, or just the audio version, but there were a lot of little technical errors (e.g. MREs being "dehydrated"), so it's not quite at the level of realism one would really want, but it was overall pretty good, and a decent story. It was probably a bit too optimistic for NATO, based on my recollection of forces in Europe at the time, but no one really knows how the war would have gone. I don't know why but this is one of my favorite books. It's well thought out, well described, and plausible to me. I keep it handy for when I want to do some light reading as I've read it so many times, it only takes a few hours to skim through. Pity that Coyle didn't continue on with these characters but went in a different direction. Always wondered about that. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed. For 45 years after World War II, East and West stood on the brink of war. When Nazi Germany was destroyed, it was evident that Russian tank armies had become supreme in Europe, but only in counterpart to US air power. In 1945 US and UK bombers sent a signal to the advancing Russians at Dresden to beware of what the Allies could do. Likewise when the Russians overran Berlin they sent a signal to the Allies what their land armies could accomplish. Thankfully the tense standoff continued on either side of the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century. During those years, however, the Allies beefed up their ground capability, while the Soviets increased their air capability, even as the new jet and missile age began (thanks much to captured German scientists on both sides). The focal point of conflict remained in central Germany--specifically the flat plains of the Fulda Gap--through which the Russians could pour all the way to the Channel if the Allies proved unprepared (or unable) to stop them. Team Yankee posits a conflict that never happened, but which very well might have, and for which both sides prepared for decades. This former New York Times bestseller by Harold Coyle, now revised and expanded, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the Allied soldiers who would have had to meet a relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. It takes the view of a US tank commander, who is vastly outnumbered during the initial onslaught, as the Russians pull out all the cards learned in their successful war against Germany. Meantime Western Europe has to speculate behind its thin screen of armor whether the New World can once again assemble its main forces--or willpower--to rescue the bastions of democracy in time. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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