WWIII: Force Of Arms (Mass Market Paperback)

by Ian Slater (Author)

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Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace, with T-59s providing covering fire. The Chinese armor,T-60 tanks 85mm guns and 90,000 PLA regulars rush in. Through the downpour the American A-10 Thurnderbolts came in low, their RAU-B Avenger 30mm seven-barreled rotary cannon spitting out a deadly stream of depleted uranium, white-hot fragments that set off the tank's ammunition and fuel tanks into great blowouts of orange-black flame. Four sleek, eighteen-foot long Tomahawk cruise missiles are headed for Beijing. It is Armageddon in Asia....


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Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace, with T-59s providing covering fire. The Chinese armor,T-60 tanks 85mm guns and 90,000 PLA regulars rush in. Through the downpour the American A-10 Thurnderbolts came in low, their RAU-B Avenger 30mm seven-barreled rotary cannon spitting out a deadly stream of depleted uranium, white-hot fragments that set off the tank's ammunition and fuel tanks into great blowouts of orange-black flame. Four sleek, eighteen-foot long Tomahawk cruise missiles are headed for Beijing. It is Armageddon in Asia....

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett; First Edition edition (March 2, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449148556
• ISBN-13: 978-0449148556
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #570,217 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good story, June 10, 2000

By	Taylor (USA) - See all my reviews

this book told an exciting story of men in combat. Even though some things seemed impossible it is well worth someones time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good read, fast pace, lacking in realism, January 24, 1998

By	[e-mail] (New York) - See all my reviews

I have to say I had a hard time putting this book down. There's a lot of action and the pace is furious. However, the pace is also a weakness of the book. It is written in the style of a TV movie: everything happens quickly, seemlessly, and often unrealistically. The author makes it seem as though you can cross China in a few hours in a tank (fat chance). In one scene, a battlefield commander radios in a request for a cruise missile attack, and, within half an hour, the missiles arrive, on target, courtesy of a sub cruising in the Pacific. Nice, but highly unlikely.

On the whole I enjoyed the book. But, given the lack of realism and paper-thin characters, I'm not sure I would read another in this series.

5.0 out of 5 stars the end of WWIII, September 26, 2003

By	M. A. Miller (Rome, GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

the end of WWIII is finally here with an assult on china's capital probably one of the best of the series