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 ...  Read the complete review

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" ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Another great success from Tom Clancy. This time it's another 'what if' scenario but one with enough realism about it to make you think it could happen. The Soviet Union is collapsing after a terrorist attack and sees as its only option the conquest of the west. Before the military attack can begin they must weaken NATO as a political force through propaganda and political means. In the first part of the book Clancy shows his great knowledge of the workings of power within the old Soviet Union as they plan their campaign. In the second part when the battle begins he uses his very clever style of constantly shifting location around the battle theatre and ...  Read the complete review

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. This book was the first order i put through on amazon. After reading loads of other clancy books i realised that id missed a couple of his early bestsellers. Depicting the break out of WW3 after a group of terrorists severly restrics Soviet Oil production by bombing a major oil refinary, clancy demonstrates an amazing knowledge of American and allied defence strategies and weapons. As the russians move to claim arab oil they must first remove the NATO threat by breaking them up politically and then through a significant land and air war. Project Red Storm (hence title of book) is the soviet operation which can bring the soviet army upto ...  Read the complete review