Wwiii (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345470416)

From Japan to Malaysia, the Pacific Rim is ablaze--in a hell called . . . WORLD WAR III

"Superior to the Tom Clancy genre, with characters that came alive . . . and the military aspect far more realistic."--The Spectator

In the Pacific--Off Korea's east coast, 185 miles south of the DMZ, six Russian-made TU-22M Backfires come in low, traveling at Mach .9. Each carries two seven-hundred-pound cluster bombs, three one-thousand-pound "iron" or high-explosive bombs, ten one-thousand-pound concrete-piercing bombs, and fifty two-hundred-pound FAEs (fuel air explosives, closely related to Napalm).

In Europe--Twenty Soviet Warsaw Pact infantry divisions and four thousand tanks begin to move. They are preceded by hundreds of strike aircraft: SU-24/Fencers for ground support and MiG-29s with air-to-air Alamo and antiradiation, antiradar air-to-surface missiles, with Russian NR-30 mm tank-destroying cannon. All are pointed toward the Fulda Gap.

So it begins . . .

Author: Ian Slater
ISBN-10: 0345470419
ISBN-13: 9780345470416
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1995
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.00w x 1.08d