WW III: World in Flames (Mass Market Paperback)

by Ian Slater (Author)

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NATO armored dividions have broken out from near-certain defeat in the Soviet-ringed Dortmund/Bielefeld Pocket on the North German Plain. Despite being faster than the American planes, Russian MiG-25s and Sukhoi-15s are unable to maintain air superiority over the western Aleutians...On every front, the war that once seemed impossible blazes its now inevitable path of worldwide destruction. There is no way to know how it will end....


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NATO armored dividions have broken out from near-certain defeat in the Soviet-ringed Dortmund/Bielefeld Pocket on the North German Plain. Despite being faster than the American planes, Russian MiG-25s and Sukhoi-15s are unable to maintain air superiority over the western Aleutians...On every front, the war that once seemed impossible blazes its now inevitable path of worldwide destruction. There is no way to know how it will end....

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (June 30, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449145646
• ISBN-13: 978-0449145647
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #634,980 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not startling, June 19, 2000

By	Big Dog (Christchurch, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

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...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad but still...., April 6, 1997

By A Customer

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

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INSPIRING, June 29, 2002

By	Scott Malensek (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!