Chieftains: The Bestselling Documentary Novel of a World War 3 Tank Commander

During the late 1970s and early 80s tension in Europe, between east and west, had grown until it appeared that war was virtually unavoidable. Soviet armies massed behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. In the west, Allied forces, British, American, and armies from virtually all the western countries, raised the levels of their training and readiness. A senior British army officer, General Sir John Hackett, had written a book of the likely strategies of the Allied forces if a war actually took place and, shortly after its publication, he suggested to his publisher Futura that it might be interesting to produce a novel based on the Third World War but from the point of view of the soldier on the ground. Bob Forrest-Webb, an author and ex-serviceman who had written several best-selling novels, was commissioned to write the book. As modern warfare tends to be extremely mobile, and as a worldwide event would surely include the threat of atom...

Author: Forrest-Webb Robert

ISBN: 9780708821503

Year of publication: 1982

Genre: Military fiction, Historical science fiction

Number of pages: 255

Reading time: 4 h. 15 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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