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Blurb: “On July 3, 1978, Drew Middleton of the New York Times wrote a column praising this phenomenal book-a best-seller in tracts from his review.
England. Some of the following are excerpts:
August 20, 1985
A Soviet SS-17 missile's nuclear warhead detonates over Birmingham, England. An estimated 300,000 people are killed and 250,000 seriously injured. In immediate retaliation two submarine-launched ballistic missiles, one American and one British, destroy Minsk, in the Soviet Union.
The Third World War has begun.
These apocalyptic events occur in General Sir John Hackett's gripping and astonishing narrative, The Third World War. How, why. when, and where would World War III be fought? Sir John, former commander of the British Army of the Rhine, tells us.
This book, written as though compiled shortly after the war's conclusion, describes its causes and effects; the way the war was contested on land, sea, in the air, and in space; and the weapons used. Because of the authors' professional qualifi-cations, experience, and knowledge of battle tactics, the book has a stunning realism. strengthened by the use of American think-tank reports and "captured" Soviet memoranda and by consultations between the American president and the British prime minister, a woman.
India and South Africa have disintegrat-ed. On December 29, 1984, a Soviet submarine sinks an Iranian transport and an American intelligence-gathering ship is attacked by missiles in the Gulf of Aden. East Berliners riot. The president of Mexico is assassinated. In the early summer of 1985
Russia invades Yugoslavia. The United States and NATO respond.
The vividly described battle that ensues at first goes against the Western powers.
Then the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe begins to disintegrate. With unforeseen triumphs in technology and dramatic political developments, the fighting in Europe comes to an end within three weeks.
There are fascinating descriptions of the technological conflicts between rival aerospace systems; accounts of ordinary people caught up in a global maelstrom; the position and operation of the media, partic-
ularly
television: and an analysis of the
reaction
The
Third
Tan Waid War ts a compelling
account of the utmost seriousness. fascina-tion, realism. readability, and relevance.
General Sir John Hackett, GCB CBE DSO and Bar MC MA BLiM ILD, the book's editor and major contributor. is considered the foremost soldier-scholar of his time. During WWII. Sir John was decorated three times mandeone the last pare huen trigades
the last time when he com-
at Amhem, in a military career that saw him Deputy Chief of the General Staff and ended with his command of the Northern Army Group in NATO as Commander in Chief of the British Army of the Rhine. He presently is a visiting Professor in Classics at King's College, London.
General Hackett was assisted in writing this book by experts of the highest cali-ber. Contributors include: Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough, KCB CBE DFC AFC, who served in the Far and Middle East air forces and in coastal, fighter, and bomber commands of the Royal Air Force. He is now chairman of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies in London, vice chairman of the British Air League, and editorial director of NATO's Fifteen Nations.
Brigadier Kenneth Hunt, OBE MC, served in the Royal Horse Artillery in Africa, Italy, and Austria. He is director of the British Atlantic Committee.
Vice-Admiral Sir lan McGeoch, KCB DSO DSC M.Phil, editor of The Naval Review. was a submarine captain, operating
Africa. against the Axis supply lines in North
Norman Macrae, deputy editor of The Economist, served as a navigator in an RAF air crew.
Major-General John Strawson, CB OBE, served in the 4th Hussars. Winston Churchill's regiment. Since 1976 he has run the Cairo office of Westland Aircraft Ltd.
The chief political advisor in the writing of this book has been Sir Bernard Burrows, GCMG. Sir Bernard served in the Diplomatic Service from 1934 to 1970.”