Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy

I know this book is just about a classic nowadays with the Berlin Wall down and the Russians our friends (unless like me you happen to marry one and then you would still hate them) but I just reread it over the past two days after a guy at work finished it and offered it to me. Wasn't the world wild when we had to worry about WW3 going down like this? But the story basically follows a few Soviet and American soldiers exploits during a conventional war in Europe, mostly Northern Germany and Iceland circa 1986. Oddly enough the war starst after a Muslim Fundamentalists commits an act of terror that cripples Soviet oil production and the Politburo ...

Red Storm Rising is the book that introduced me to Tom Clancy and is responsible for me spending vast quantities of money on the books that followed. It is a well-balanced look at what could have happened during the Cold War years. The trigger that sets the cataclysmic events catalogued in this novel, in motion is the attack by Muslim terrorists on a major Soviet oilfield. This attack through its success forces the Politburo, to sanction the invasion of the Persian Gulf by the Soviet Union’s vast array of armed forces. Realising that NATO will rapidly react to this act of naked aggression the Soviet politicians determine that a "maskirovka" ...

A chance meeting at a games convention between two authors,Tom Clancy already on the Techno-thriller top shelf with The Hunt for Red October and Larry Bond a whizz at war game design resulted in this ultimate 'what if' novel Red Storm Rising. The book plays out the events around the world up to and including the outbreak of World War III as seen through the eyes of a handful of characters who exprience through war every possible emotion from love to hate,revenge the desire to get the job done whatever the cost and the basic human instinct to simply live to see another morning. Starting with an act of religious vengeance that strips Russia of most ...