Red Metal
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Mark Greaney
LtCol H. Ripley Rawlings IV, USMC
A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West. A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man. The Russian bear has awakened. Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays. It's all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies.Ranged against the Russian attack are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the captain of an American tank platoon who, along with a German sergeant, struggle to keep a small group of American and German tanks in the fight.Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard?
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Author
Mark Greaney
Pages
656
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2019-07-16
ISBN
0451490436 9780451490438
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"Reading this book, with all its contemporary weapon systems and current geopolitical climate and fears, must have given the same feelings that reading The Hunt for Red October must have given in the 80's. Mark Greaney does a great job of making World War III feel not only plausible, but eventually, probable "