Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III by Harold Coyle (Epub)

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During the second half of the Twentieth Century, East and West stood on the brink of war. No where was this more evident then in Central Germany, where ten thousand tanks belonging to NATO stood ready to resist a ground attack spearheaded by forty thousand Warsaw Pact tanks. It was a war that never was. But what if it had? How would the opening days of World War III played out?

Team Yankee, the New York Times best seller by Harold Coyle, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the soldiers who would have had to meet the relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. Using the geo-political and military scenarios described by General Sir John Hackett, former NORTHAG commander and author of ‘World War Three; August 1985’, Team Yankee follows the war as seen from the turret of Captain Sean Bannon’s tank.

Through Bannon’s eyes, and those of the men belonging to his tank heavy combat team, the reader lives through the first fourteen days of World War III. The action is vivid and exciting, the tension palpable. Defeat and death are as close as victory.

User’s Reviews

Review “Combines the knowledge of the professional soldier with a flair for the dramatic narrative to produce a gripping scenario of what it might be like if the balloon goes up.” (Charles B. McDonald, author of A Time for Trumpets and Company Commander)“A good and compelling picture of how war is at the company level and what is involved in company battle which …is the battle that really matters” (General Sir John Hackett, author of The Third World War and Commanding General NORTAG and British Army of the Rhein)“Coyle’s unusual skill as a novelist brings to life the realities of combat as very few writers are able to do. I found it absorbing, exciting, and was literally unable to put it down.” (W.E.B. Griffin, author of Brotherhood of War series and Semper Fi)”,,,not meant to be a blueprint for history, but a plausible outcome for what might have been. In this the author succeeds wonderfully, and actually makes you care about Team Yankee and its soldiers. ” (A Wargamer’s Needful Things)a techno-thriller like no other book. I am an avid reader of alternate history novels and Harold W. Coyle has set the bar way above the rest that I have read. After finishing the book, his style of alternate history put him in the same league as Harry Turtledove and Robert Conroy. Being a former armored officer has given Harold a better insight as to the inner workings of a team and therefore also given him a unique perspective when he wrote this book… a great piece of literature and all those who start it will have trouble putting it down until they are finished. (Armor Modeler Preservation Society)… While one might wonder at the need to revise and update fiction, this is done because of new facts revealed about each side’s plans and strategies, so it offers a revision based on the latest knowledge of events and behind-the-scenes politics on both sides. While newcomers will thoroughly appreciate Team Yankee, prior fans of the old version will find this new remake adds more depth and information, and will appreciate its revealing perspective. (Midwest Book Review) –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I read this book in paperback when it first came out and enjoyed it. However, the digital version is simply butchered.The novel was not scanned and digitized, it was transcribed with grammatical errors galore.For those thinking of getting the kindle version be advised that words like “down” has been replaced with clown. And “thing” replaced with thong.Of all digital books, this one has been through a meat grinder and I would recommend spending the time with the printed version than the digital version.Example. from the book in my lap. “Tessman greeted Harrert and led him and the medic to where the lieutenant was lying, face down,” Kindle excerpt, “Tessman, who greeted Harrert, led him and the medic to where the lieutenant was laying next to 21 facedown on the crew had thrown down on the ground.”It is not just an issue with the wrong words inserted, it is the fact that sentences are restructured and punctuated in ways that do not reflect the original print.Whoever transcribed this book to digital needs to be fired and banned from transcribing.

⭐ My two star rating is not for Lt. Col. Coyle’s writing; his work is five star. My poor rating is for the appalling formatting of an otherwise outstanding novel. I first read ‘Team Yankee’ when it came out in the mid-80’s and have re-read it five times since – it’s that good. I’ve waited patiently for the book to appear in Kindle format and was quite happy when it did; it had been a few years since I last read the book and with its appearance in Kindle format, I was anxious to devour it again. So, it was with great disappointment that within just a few pages I found that the transition from the printed page to digital format had not been a success. In fact, it is an abysmal failure. Jumping from about a 10-point, single-spaced text to 12-point double-spaced text at almost every other page, there are entire paragraphs missing, along complete descriptions and character thought-lines, and pages are duplicated frequently while others are truncated. Words are misspelled or are totally inappropriate for some sentences, faults missing in the print version. In short, the digital version of this book is a disaster and the perpetrators should be deeply chagrined. Amazon, you should likewise be chastised for allowing such a mess to be inflicted on your customers at $8 a whack. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good ‘what if’ novel, but until the digital format is repaired, I only recommend the printed version.

⭐ I happen to own the hardbound version of this book and have read it several times since I got it. I purchased the Kindle version because that has become my main method of keeping track of my books (I have over 600 Kindle books on my phone and I add new ones regularly). Books that I enjoy, I often go back and re-read between 8 and 12 years later. In reading through this “version” I began to come across non words as well as words that did not fit the context of the part of the book where they were found. It was very distracting to very frequently have to stop reading and go back and read a paragraph to see why it was not making any sense. I will probably never read this book in Kindle format again, just because it is so poorly done. Instead, I will go out to my storage building and locate the hardback version and read through it next time. This version was not really a pleasure to read due to the many errors.

⭐ Overall a well-written military novel, falling into the “techo-thriller” genre made popular by Tom Clancy. Now that I think about it, it reminds me of a not-as-well-written version of Red Storm Rising. The reason for the three stars is the transcription (at least, I HOPE its the transcription) – this was butchered. SLAUGHTERED. Butchered to the point where it’s hard to read. Butchered to the point where I reread sentences 3 or 4 times to make sure I’m not having a stroke because it literally makes no sense. Typos, grammatical errors, sentence fragments, transposition of numbers and letters, the list goes on – whoever edited/transcribed this should be taken out back and roughed up. Then the person who APPROVED this Kindle version should be taken out back and roughed up even worse.If I were Harold Coyle, I would be livid.Also, the continued use of the phrase “third point of contact” just got tired and annoying after the second or third time. Just say ass like a normal soldier would, geez.Book itself – 4 stars. Editorial/transcriptional butchering – 1 star. I rounded it up to 3.

⭐ Being in the 80’s Army, I fell into this story and could really visualize the action. This wasn’t just another story about some fictitious battle, this was real.The story is fast paced, accurate as to weapons, vehicles, doctrine and mindset.Basically, if you served during the 80’s/early 90’s, you recognize yourself in this book somewhere.The complaint about the hardback book that I have, is the entire book was reprinted or retyped on some machine with rigid auto correct engaged.Sentences make no sense, tenses change in mid-sentence, names are spelled differently from one paragraph to another, and punctuation is random.This occurs on almost every page of the book. Initially, I wanted to red pen everything, but decided to just get through the story. I’m not sure how this edition made it by the proof readers or author.

⭐ I guess I first should say that I’m a fan of Coyle. I’ve read most of his books and find him a worthy peer of Larry Bond, Tom Clancy, Charles D. Taylor, etc. However, the Kindle version of Team Yankee is an absolute disaster. Coyle’s editor should be fired and Coyle should donate all his profits to a charity that promotes writing. I have so many bookmarks in my Kindle linking to typographical, grammatical and contextual errors that I don’t even know where to start. I’ll give two examples randomly picked. Chapter 6 page 137 in the hardcover edition and location 2759 on my Kindle. The Kindle reads as follows: “Having no wish to be anywhere near 66 when the on [sic] main gun rounds started going off.” “On!” Really? The sentence structure problem is beyond obvious. How did this get missed during the editing procees? Another example is location 4689 in the Kindle page 234 last full paragraph in the hardcover edition. The Kindle reads as follows: “He went on to inform Bannon [sic] was deploying his company. The error is that the Delta or the D Company commander in the book was deploying HIS company and reporting that fact to Bannon. As written, in the Kindle version, the D Company commander is telling Bannon that Bannon is deploying Bannon’s company. What a complete snafu. It’s clear that in 2015 or thereabouts, Coyle and his editors tried to update Team Yankee and/or improve its prose. I’m all for udpates. But in this case, they failed spectacularly. I’m trying to think of a self-published author who is selling a book this poorly edited and I’m struggling to find a comparable example. Considering Coyle is an established and well respected author, with an equally established and known publishing house, the cacophony of errors is damning and makes me think they rushed Team Yankee to the Kindle just to make an extra buck or two for Christmas. I’d recommend you pass on this or any other Kindle book written by Coyle until he has demonstrated that he has cleaned up his act. The written version gets five stars but don’t waste your $7.99 plus tax on the Kindle edition.

⭐ This product is very misleading and you might think you are buying the novel because the “look Inside” preview actually shows the first pages from Harold Coyle’s novel Team Yankee, plus the Author of the book is listed as Harold Coyle and all the customer reviews are about the novel Team Yankee. What you actually get is a hard cover rule book for the table top miniatures wargame Team Yankee. The rulebook itself is written by a company called Battlefront Miniatures and is “inspired by extracts from Team Yankee by Harold Coyle”. I do not know if this was done intentional by adding the “Look Inside” preview of the Team Yankee book itself in order to mislead, and its most likely Amazons fault for adding the hundreds of Team Yankee book reviews to this items description.. Either way, this is not the Book written by Harold Coyle, which is what I was looking for. and upon further review of the item description I see that it being a game rule book is mentioned. So shame on me for being mislead by all the above.. I had planned to return this rulebook because it is not what I wanted, but after taking a glance through the pages, it has now caught my attention and peeked my interest in table top wargaming…Maybe that was the cruel plan all along.

⭐ The concept is dated and the writing is sub-par, but that’s okay. You’re reading this book because the armchair general in you is interested in the hypothetical: World War 3 in the 1980’s with all the cool equipment. And the book delivers in its modest way. I say modest because you should not expect a grand, all-encompassing narrative in the vein of Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising.” Instead, the focus is on tactics and small units, particularly tanks. You’ll learn a lot about modern tanks and how they function in combat. If you’re not interested in tanks, this is not the book for you. If you prefer politics and diplomacy to tactics, this is not the book for you. The story’s scope is extremely narrow, both in time and place. There is self-consciously no “big picture” view of the war. The book’s style is more after-action report, filled with acronyms and technical language, than creative writing. Nonetheless, Coyle secured this reader’s investment in the characters and their fates, which made finishing the book pleasant enough. I read an old hardbound copy so cannot speak to problems people may be having with a digital or revised format.

⭐ This WWIII story, featuring an armor-mech infantry team, is set in Germany in roughly the 1980s, not too many years after I served as an M60A1 tank crewman in Germany, and though the book does not deal with the M60 tanks, the procedures are similar enough that it brought back memories. The author definitely knows what he’s talking about.Though mostly about the action, The book also touches on the psychological aspects of war, on tactical leaders, on soldiers, and even their families.I was a bit surprised that the book did not discuss tactical air power more extensively. Overall, an excellent book! I loved the content.What I didn’t love (Kindle version) was the editing. It was atrocious. It seems that somebody read the paper book using voice-to-text but never went back and corrected all the misstatements and errors that were created by doing that. But I’m rating the content, not the editing, so five stars.

⭐ To start off with, despite my title of the review I absolutely love this book. I first read this book in 1989 while in the Army stationed in Germany as a young SP4 and SGT in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fulda. This book describes a time that for me was pivotal in my shaping as a man. When the book describes the actions of the Cavalry in the beginning hours of the war and how they fought long enough to allow follow on units to get in place and then were mostly destroyed, this is what my fellow Soldiers and I trained for. The descriptions of the vehicles, equipment and formations were spot on for that time and I caught myself reminiscing about those times often. Unfortunately this re-release in digital version was awful. Many misspellings, sentence structure way off, punctuation missing, all led to a lot of rereading to clarify what I just read. Someone really needs to go back and proofread this thing because its really distracting. Other than that the story was every bit as good as when I first read it. Harold Coyle has a whole series of these historical fiction military stories. Team Yankee was a stand alone book but his next writings started with a group of characters that carried over into subsequent writings. Check those out as well. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed even though his writings started to reflect an Army that he was out of touch with the further time passed from his time in the Army. Overall great book, check it out.

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