Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III (Casemate Fiction)

Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III (Casemate Fiction)

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 Germanyâ€”specifically the flat plains of the Fulda Gapâ€”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 forcesâ€”or willpowerâ€”to rescue the bastions of democracy in time.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue

1 Stand-To
2 First Battle
3 Change of Mission
4 Into the Vacuum
5 Hunter and Hunted
6 On the Razorâ€™s Edge
7 Check and Checkmate
8 R and R
9 Deep Attack
10 Red Dawn
11 Counterattack
12 â€œThey Came in the Same Old Wayâ€
13 To the Saale
14 The Day After

Epilogue
Glossary
Country USA
Brand Casemate
Manufacturer Casemate
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ReleaseDate 2018-08-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781612006499

Country	USA
Brand	Casemate
Manufacturer	Casemate
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ReleaseDate	2018-08-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781612006499

Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III (Casemate Fiction)

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