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Team Yankee (Record no. 27890)

020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0425110427 (pbk.)
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library AJMA
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number Coy
Item number 2
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number Coy
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Coyle, H. W.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Team Yankee
Remainder of title a novel of World War III
Statement of responsibility, etc Harold Coyle
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Berkley Publishing Group
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1988, c1987
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 330 p.
Dimensions 18 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Reprint. Originally published: Novato, CA : Presidio, 1987.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "A Berkley book."
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed.

For 45 years after World War II, East and West stood on the brink of war. When Nazi Germany was destroyed, it was evident that Russian tank armies had become supreme in Europe, but only in counterpart to US air power. In 1945 US and UK bombers sent a signal to the advancing Russians at Dresden to beware of what the Allies could do. Likewise when the Russians overran Berlin they sent a signal to the Allies what their land armies could accomplish. Thankfully the tense standoff continued on either side of the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.

During those years, however, the Allies beefed up their ground capability, while the Soviets increased their air capability, even as the new jet and missile age began (thanks much to captured German scientists on both sides). The focal point of conflict remained in central Germany—specifically the flat plains of the Fulda Gap—through which the Russians could pour all the way to the Channel if the Allies proved unprepared (or unable) to stop them.
Team Yankee posits a conflict that never happened, but which very well might have, and for which both sides prepared for decades. This former New York Times bestseller by Harold Coyle, now revised and expanded, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the Allied soldiers who would have had to meet a relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions.

It takes the view of a US tank commander, who is vastly outnumbered during the initial onslaught, as the Russians pull out all the cards learned in their successful war against Germany. Meantime Western Europe has to speculate behind its thin screen of armor whether the New World can once again assemble its main forces—or willpower—to rescue the bastions of democracy in time.
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Local note 71723
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World War III
General subdivision Fiction.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type Fiction
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