WWIII: South China Sea [Paperback]

Ian Slater (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1995

THUNDER ON THE RIM
On the South China Sea an oil rig erupts in flames--as AK-47 tracer rounds stitch the night and men die in pools of blood. The SOSUS underwater network catapults news of the attack to Washington--while ChiCom troops mass on the Vietnamese border.
Ten divisions of Chinese shock troops blast their way south, overrunning the U.S.-U.N-led Emergency Response Force. But the West's best warriors fight back. U.S. Special Forces, British SAS, and the legendary Gurkhas, their Kukri knives drawn, go toe-to-toe with the invaders. Tomcats and F-18s pulverize the jungle. And the Military Sealift Command hurls Aegis cruisers and Wasp-Iwo Jima, and Spruance-class attack ships--spearheaded by Sea Wolf subs--into the South China Sea.
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


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In the Pacific--Off Koreans east cost, 185 miles south of the DMZ, six Russian-made TU-22M backfires come in low, carrying two seven-hundred-pound cluster bombs, three one-thousand-pound "iron" bombs, ten one-thousand-pound concrete-piercing bombs, and fifty-two-hundred-pound FAEs.
In Europe--Twenty Soviet Warsaw Pact infantry divisions and four thousand tanks begin to move. They are preceded by hundreds of strike aircraft. All are pointed toward the Fulda Gap. And World War III begins... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345470419
• ISBN-13: 978-0345470416
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,543,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars man thsi book has no context on WWIII, September 26, 2003

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M. A. Miller (Rome, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WWIII: South China Sea (Mass Market Paperback)

you have a series called WWIII and you try to make an extra buck with a book that has nothing to do with the war that ended a book earlier stick to your original outline slater don't try to get me to waste money on another book like this

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor research, July 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: WW III (Mass Market Paperback)

The author attempts to write a "Tom Clancy" novel but without the research. Military thrillers usually need a certain level of technical competance to be sucessful and this book is strongly lacking. From the moment that the books mentions a US Tank platoon having 3 tanks and using "shoe" rounds (should be 4 tanks and the rounds are called SABOT). I lost all faith and took to skipping whole pages in the book. After all, if an author is going to write a book, it should not be too hard to open one and read it. The author obviously never did this. The plot was predictable and lacked imagination. Over all, a waste of my time. I should have just read "Team Yankee" again.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Thank God it's over, September 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: WWIII: South China Sea (Mass Market Paperback)

This last installment of the WWIII series by Ian Slater took a very different approach than the others, much to my chagrin. Gone was the saga of the Brentwood family, replaced by Gen. Freeman roaming around Vietnam and often losing the confidence of his superiors. Oil rigs drilling for petroleum in the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands which are claimed by both China and Vietnam are blown up and the survivors are taken hostage by the PLA and forced to work. Chinese shock troops cross the border and begin a war with Vietnam over the oil leases. Washington makes a decision to support our former enemy Vietnam to keep China from trying to claim all of the resources of the South Pacific for itself. Most of the war is rather one-sided with the U.S., Vietnam, and the U.N. force being routed in the jungle. The conclusion is rather less than conclusive and you are left with the feeling of "that's it?" The subplots of the book are resolved on the last page and in very little detail. It's really a shame that such a fine series had to end this way.