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WW III: World in Flames

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A good read - if you are not a massive military buff and don'tgive a rat's how much a Sparrow missile weighs, then you should findit entertaining enough. Freeman is a bit shallow though as a main character - Slater tends to play too much on his "un-PC" behaviour, I feel. As far as a series goes, it is quite good so far (the first 3). The atmosphere of a World War raging in Europe for an extended period is captured well in the shifts to England, and the plight of the average citizen and the masses of refugees is sometimes quite disturbing. It is also good (in a typically male, gung ho type of way) to finally have a nuclear exchange, instead of it being "stopped in the nick of time" as in many other novels. I am now living in trepidation, though, as I start the rest of the series, due to the scathing reviews referring to ships and people "coming back from the dead" - we'll see...

WW III: World in Flames is the 3rd installment of Ian Slater's WW III series, and is the best one so far, even if it is brimming with military innacuracies and errors that in some cases are minor, in others dumb and in others just too blatant to ignore. An example of this is when Slater mentions an "A-10 Intruder". Uh-huh. The A-10 and the Intruder are 2 completely different aircraft!!! Also innacuracies about the calibre of the Phalanx gun system and the weight of the Sparrow air-to-air missile(in the text it seems to shift from 524 to 514 to 5,000 pounds)and what's this? A Russian ballistic missile submraine weighing in at twenty-five tons?! An F-15 fighter weighs more than that! Use you noggin, Mr. Slater! Still, despite all this the interesting use of an SAS unit was entertaining, and the nuclear aspect at the end are probably what saved this book from being rated a 6 or a 7 by me

Call me crazy but this entire WWIII series by slater is a guilty pleasure of mine. I like clancy and bond as much as anyone else but this series is great if you like a lot more action.

This book is a absolute page turner. Great characters, awesome plot. What makes this series so great is the reality of it all, I can easily see the events as Ian described them taking place. The minor insignificant little 'Technical' errors dont bother me at all....not that picky over things that dont effect the quality of the read. Great book, you wont be disapointed just make sure you start the series from the begining.

two thumbs up Ian!

I think this book is amazingly realistic and is scary for the fact that it could easily happen and is the best book series i've ever read.

Ian Slater knows absolutely nothing about the American military. How anyone could have let him get away with writing such a book is beyond me. The editing is terrible, there are so many grammatical mistakes it isn't even funny. All the World War III books suck in my opinion, and I've read them all.

This is one of the best modern war fictions that I've ever read. It rivals Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, and inspired me to become an author myself. I love its realism, solid plotline, and-most importantly-its timeless plausibility!

These books for the most part are the most realistic and powerfull books of their genre. With all respect to the author the series (both) are better than average when it comes to the genre. The thing I love most is the realism and detail the author goes into at just the right times to go over the top. Yes there are some short comings in his works (like the freakin militia book with the electrically driven/primed super gun) but for the most part those of us that grew up on this can comprehend and enjoy all his works.

this is a good book but once again no tom clancy problems happen in this books sequal