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Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript Team Yankee: World War III your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Audio MP3 on CD. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview 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 Team Yankee: World War III, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed. 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. 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. 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 Team Yankee: World War III 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. Show More. Related Searches. Almost Never: A Novel. Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring. View Product. Backazimuth: a novel. In military terminology, a backazimuth is a compass direction taken back to a starting point, In military terminology, a backazimuth is a compass direction taken back to a starting point, guiding a soldier home. For Major Bill Slade, a second-rate army officer and inveterate drinker, an unsettling chain of events tied to his past will Blackmail: A Novel. The Russian government officially apologizes, but Cat and Mouse: A Novel. New York Times bestselling author Harold Coyle's Cat and Team Yankee: World War III reveals the chaos of warfare as Islamic terrorists, lead by their most charismatic leader to date, form a powerful coalition in hopes of breaking America's will to Team Yankee: World War III the war End of Days: A Novel. She has constructed a massive ranch-fortress in the American Southwest, stocked with everything necessary to rebuild civilization. Now her visions are coming true. John Stone, New Orleans, After a terrible hurricane devastates When NUMA team leader Kurt Austin finds his own memories of a dangerous mission aren't to be trusted, he must follow a trail of mysterious disppearances to the truth in this novel in the 1 New York Times-bestselling series. Casemate Publishers. Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III by Harold Coyle, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

By Tom Burgess. That may surprise many who know me Team Yankee: World War III I have only ever played Soviet and East Block type forces in Team Yankee so far. But the reality is that US forces were my first purchase for Team Yankee and I have quite a collection of US units still boxed and waiting to be built. I only shifted to Soviets to help the force balance in my local gaming area. By now my Soviets are quite complete and its time for me to go full throttle into Americans for Team Yankee with this new book. All the formations and support that were available to the US player in S tripes are also in the new book. This period saw a rapid rearming and reorganization of the US army. These beast are impressive and are now the absolute best tank in WW3 Team Yankee. But that domination comes at a steep price. You cannot deny their stats, but at these prices, MA1A1 and M1A1HC use may be limited to a single platoon supporting a lighter cheaper formation. This means if you have reserves in your mission, this beast will have to go in to reserve leaving a much smaller force trying to hang on until the tanks roll in. Battlefront is now providing the US player four variants of the M1 Abrams tank. So you could add APUs to any of these. The straight M1s would never have had them. The APUs were very important. They allowed the tank to be completely powered while stationary without having to run the gas-guzzling turbine. The Team Yankee: World War III burned nearly as much fuel while idling as they did driving at full speed. Players have been clamoring for these since the original release of Team Yankee. The M3 though gave up much of the troop compartment to make room for more TOW Missiles and 25mm ammo. The M3 actually only had room for two scouts that could dismount. Yes, they were designed to be amphibious but in reality, they Team Yankee: World War III unstable and dangerous when swimming. You really should not use the amphibious rule. This is especially true for the M2A2 and M3A2 which had the swimming trim vanes removed. You might Team Yankee: World War III noticed that instead of the TOW missiles from Stripes. This formation has a lot of available core units. This is doctrinally correct for reconnaissance and screening missions, but if the troop ever had to attack or defend, the sections would likely form back up into platoons of six CFVs. My chief concern here is that with just two M3s in a section, the loss of one means that section immediately goes into Poor Spirits. These come in at six points apiece. I was a bit surprised Team Yankee: World War III the Rate of Fire stayed at just one. A good AH gunner would have several missiles staggered in the air at once so after one missile hit home, the next was already halfway to the next target. The British have had these in the rules for quite a while but they have finally caught up in the US arsenal now. These are three points apiece, like Team Yankee: World War III counterparts in the British army and they have the same minelet ammunition option. What we have covered thus far in this article adds all one needs to complete historical US forces for to time frame. But in this book, we are getting full experimental formations and even more experimental equipment. This division was stationed at Ft Lewis Washington with two light infantry brigades that rode to battle on Fast Attack Vehicles basically dune buggies that were eventually replaced with more reliable and safer HUMMWVs. It was meant to be part of a rapid response force that could deploy almost anywhere in the world very quickly. So all if its equipment was very light. This is a decent multi-purpose force at a low cost. All of the 9th Infantry Division Motorized formations lack any sort of formation fire support. However, they are cheap enough and versatile enough that they make a perfect second, or third formation in a US force. Dune buggies for the win! All the Marine formations, units, and equipment that were Team Yankee: World War III in Stripes are back in the new book. The TOW-2 upgrade is a great buy. Normally it only costs just a single point to upgrade the unit. All must be upgraded or none. So Team Yankee: World War III you have it. I am definitely motivated to start working on my US models I have now and to be ready to add to them as soon as the new models arrive. I want to fit them to the M1 Abrams models I bought years ago. What about the Marines? Previous Some ideas to base your next 28mm army. Copyright - All rights reserved. Team Yankee - World War III

General Hackett's scenario takes place in ; Coyle never specifies the year, but it is assumed to take place in the late s. While Hackett's book emphasizes strategy and world politics, Coyles features the experiences of the tank crews and infantrymen fighting on the front lines. The novel achieved best-selling status and became a series of comic booksan Origins Award -winning board wargame and later a video game. Init was adapted as a sister scenario for the Flames of War wargame. There is nothing special about this team; it is an average company -sized U. Captain Bannon is 27 years old, married and has three children. He studied military history, with a graduate degree, but is seen as an average officer; Coyle notes in the preface that Bannon will probably never rise in rank above lieutenant colonel. The infantry is armed with Dragon antitank missiles and millimeter LAWs. There are four M1s in each tank platoon, numbered 11, 12, 13, 14, The XO's tank is numbered 55; the CO's tank TF is formed from the First Battalion, 78th Infantry. The brigade commander is Colonel Brunn. The prologue begins with Team Yankee: World War III series of quotations from international news sources listing the deteriorating international situation between the United States and the Soviet Unionparticularly in the Persian Gulffrom July 15 to August 1, when NATO forces are mobilized and moved to the inter-German frontier. The novel begins with Team Yankee deployed forward towards the frontier with the German Democratic Republic. Captain Bannon is awakened by a radio check from his Third Platoon Leader, Lieutenant Garger—the third straight day Garger has used his radio to break radio silence. Unable to go back to sleep, Bannon inspects his unit and meets the other principal characters of the novel. He finds Garger, berates him, and decides that with a Team Yankee: World War III coming on, Garger would need to be replaced as a liability. Meanwhile, at the Army base, Pat Bannon, Sean's wife, understands that the possibility of war is high, and prepares to evacuate her small children while exercising the informal leadership over the other Army wives of Team Yankee. Colonel Reynolds inspects the forward positions of his task force, including Team Yankee, when the war starts. The Soviets push through the armored cavalry screen and attack the team, in dug in positions under cover. Team Bravo's company commander is killed in combat. Team Yankee repels the Soviet attack. To Captain Bannon's pleasant surprise, his problem lieutenant is proving to be quite competent in combat. At the base, Pat serves as the informal head of Team Yankee's dependents. She makes a trip into the nearest town to make sure Sue Garger, Gerry's wife, is recovered. The roads are choked with military and refugee traffic. Pat Bannon, her children, and all the other dependents make it to Rhein-Main Air Basewhere they await evacuation. As soon as an aircraft lands and Team Yankee: World War III U. A Soviet air strike occurs while the dependents wait; Pat and her children must run past dead civilians to make the flight. Meanwhile, the task force and the Team recover from the first firefight. Bannon finds that the attitude of those Team Yankee: World War III have actually seen combat differs from the staff, who are more enthusiastic about the Team Yankee: World War III. Team Yankee is ordered to attack Hill with C Company in support. Team Yankee: World War III is confusion in orders; Major Jordan, the battalion S-3, orders the attack be halted, while Colonel Reynolds, the battalion commander, orders Bannon to attack. In the fighting, Bannon's tank, 66, is crippled and his driver is killed. The surviving three crewmen in Team Yankee: World War III defeat three T tanks, which did not suspect 66 was still in action; the crew destroys 66 to prevent its capture. Bannon rejoins the Team and takes over Lt. Uleski's tank C Company never arrives and the Team is forced to Team Yankee: World War III to hold Hill on its own. Team Yankee holds off an attack by a Soviet Team Yankee: World War III on Hill during the night. The Dragon gunner is killed and Kelp and McCauley race against time to destroy a T before it destroys them. Kelp is later awarded a Silver Star for his efforts. The Team was scheduled to withdraw at to U. Bannon wakes up two hours later, wakes up his tank crew and platoon leaders to the universal chorus of "Oh, shit! The Team reaches the nearest town, where, to his fury, Bannon finds soldiers from C Company lounging around. Bannon reports Team Yankee: World War III the task force commander; the Team is placed in reservewhere it can recover and receive reinforcements. Avery is puzzled by the slightly distant reception he gets from the Team's officers, including Garger. Avery, who has yet to enter combat, finds himself isolated from the other members of the Team. He finds himself even more isolated when the Team starts to paint kill rings on the barrels of each tank. Because of the Team's combat experience, Bannon is ordered to lead the attack. Bannon expresses doubts to Colonel Reynolds that the rest of the battalion, in particular C Company, can carry out their role in supporting the armor teams; he is promised that there will be no more "rat-fucks". The attack is delayed because the enemy, a Polish T tank battalion, launches its attack first, which gives the Team a chance to fight from defensive cover. The Poles fall back and the Task Force pursues. Avery gets his first kill. In the fight, the battalion XO is hit and taken out of action. The Task Force halts to reorganize. Bannon sends the Mech Platoon to secure the nearest town. An East German teenager, apparently a member of the Free German Youthwounds one of Polgar's infantrymen with an AK rifle and is killed immediately. Avery, in Tank 21, is wounded in an air attack by a Soviet helicopter. First Team Yankee: World War III Harrert and the maintenance crew salvage the tank, grimly noting it would be back in combat in 24 hours. The task force headquarters is attacked, severely wounding Colonel Reynolds and cutting off the XO, Major Jordan, from communicating with the Task Force; Bannon finds himself in command of the Task Force and leads three companies to defeat the Soviet counterattack and rescue the Task Force staff. The surviving Task Force staff, led by Major Jordan, resume command. C Company is effectively wiped out and its survivors are integrated with D Company. The Task Force plans to ambush a Soviet battalion heading westward into their position, centered on an East German town. Jordan plans a reverse slope defense, not attacking the Soviets at the logical choke point. The Soviet attackers, harassed by the Task Force scout platoon and U. The Soviet commander moves south, into Bannon's Team's guns. When asked to give his after-action report, Bannon flippantly quotes the Duke of Wellington"They came, you know, Team Yankee: World War III the same old way and we beat them in the same old way. NATO as a whole, and the U. Units that are no longer capable of going on the offensive, or Team Yankee: World War III not holding key terrain, are stripped of their most effective units. Team Yankee is thus moved from Task Force to Task Force Armored, which is their parent battalion, to continue the attack into Leipzig and Berlin. The Team is assigned a screening role to the main effort, and is ordered to feint as if they intend to capture a bridge over the Saale River. Weiss' platoon is able to capture the bridge intact. The Task Force is ordered to prepare for nuclear warfare by dispersion, deeper cover, and protection against the effects of a blast on electronics and optics. Bannon immediately orders a tightening on hygiene and equipment maintenance to lessen the long-term effects of nuclear war. Bannon prepares for the next attack when the news comes that a cease-fire was declared and the war is over. The cease-fire holds. Life slowly resumes a routine closer to peacetime. A National Guard division relieves Bannon's division, and Bannon returns Team Yankee: World War III his quarters only two months after he left, to reconnect with his family life. It also deals with, to a lesser degree, the reactions of men facing combat for the first time, and how they react after seeing combat. Non-fiction books describing similar experiences to those of the fictional Team Yankee are "Brazen Chariots" by Robert Crispwhich describes his service in the North African armored campaigns in the Second World Warand "Heights of Courage" by Avigdor Kahalani, an account of his experiences in the Yom Kippur War. Team Yankee was Coyle's first novel, and its success made Coyle a prominent writer in the field of military fiction. Miller licensed from the book as a part of their "First Battle" series of wargames sharing the same basic rules. Link to information about the board game. There was a counter and map wargame based directly on the book, that came out in the early s. First Comics published a six-issue comic book series based on Team Yankeewhich was reissued as a graphic novel in David Drake wrote the strip. It also has missions based on missions in the novel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This Team Yankee: World War III has multiple issues. 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