The Third World War: August 1985 - Gen. Sir John Hackett - 1979 5th Hardback

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Part of our Top WW3 Books List. Blurb: “On July 3, 1978, Drew Middleton of the New York Times wrote a column praising this phenomenal book-a best-seller in tracts from his review. England. Some of the following are excerpts: August 20, 1985 A Soviet SS-17 missile's nuclear warhead detonates over Birmingham, England. An estimated 300,000 people are killed and 250,000 seriously injured. In immediate retaliation two submarine-launched ballistic missiles, one American and one British, destroy Minsk, in the Soviet Union. The Third World War has begun. These apocalyptic events occur in General Sir John Hackett's gripping and astonishing narrative, The Third World War. How, why. when, and where would World War III be fought? Sir John, former commander of the British Army of the Rhine, tells us. This book, written as though compiled shortly after the war's conclusion, describes its causes and effects; the way the war was conteste