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First Clash:Combat
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Paperback, 248 pages
Published
April 1st 1988
by Berkley
(first published 1985)
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An odd book, originally comissioned as a manual for the Canadian Armed Forces in the early eighties, it describes the first three days of a (thankfully) fictional World War Three as experienced by the men of a Canadian armoured battle group. The group is engaged in a delaying action against a numerically superior Soviet force and each chapter covers one part of the operation, preparing initial defensive positions, launching counter attacks and so forth.
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Without a doubt, this is the best of all the "Cold War Tuned Hot" novels. If you only read one book about the potential war between the Warsaw Pact and NATO in the mid-1980s, THIS is it.
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The book was originally published a Canadian Forces Publication B-GL-309-006/FT001.
From my Army time
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British author and historian who specialized in military history and military biography, particularly of the Second World War. Macksey was commissioned in the Royal Armoured Corps and served during the Second World War (earning the Military Cross under the command of Percy Hobart). Macksey later wrote the (authoritative) biography of Hobart.Macksey gained a permanent commission in 1946, was transf
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