Team Yankee - Couverture souple

Coyle, Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140147594 ISBN 13 : 9780140147599

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1991

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Harold W. Coyle is the author of over 15 works of historical and military fiction including the legendary New York Times bestseller Team Yankee. A 1974 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, he served for 14 years in the U.S. Army prior to his career as a writer. He currently lives in Kansas.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140147594
• ISBN 13: 9780140147599
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336