Red Army

Peters, Ralph

ISBN 10: 0671676687 / ISBN 13: 9780671676681

Published by Pocket Books, New York, 1989

About this Item

Black & red covers in a black & red pictorial dust jacket - with the publisher's half height black promotional outer wrapper. 8vo, 337 pages. 2nd. printing.

Seller Inventory # 097367

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Army
• Publisher: Pocket Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671676687
• ISBN 13: 9780671676681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Explores the human side of the Red Army as they invade West Germany and force a desperate response by the U.S. and its NATO allies

Reviews

Contemporary fiction with a war-fighting theme demands an obliging enemy who tests one's strengths and virtues to their limits, but ultimately makes the right decisions--and the right mistakes--to secure a favorable outcome for the "good guys." Western authors from Sir John Hackett to Tom Clancy have assigned that role to the Soviet Union. Peters, a Soviet analyst, Russian linguist and military intelligence officer, reverses the image in this brilliantly executed military procedural that tells the story of a future conventional war on the NATO central front entirely from a Soviet perspective. He eschews national policy, grand strategy, and high-tech gadgetry to focus on the mentalite of the modern Soviet soldier, from marshall to rifleman. Fusing knowledge of Soviet fighting techniques and Russian history, he presents credible military situations and characters who are archetypes rather than stereotypes. Readers will find here neither the military primitives described by Viktor Suvorov and Alexander Cockburn, nor the mirror-images based on U.S. models that dominate so much recent fiction. Peters's Red Army is by no means a perfect military instrument, but it knows how to fight. And it recognizes a fundamental truth: wars are won by the side making the fewest mistakes. In these pages, NATO becomes the obliging enemy whose errors of planning and execution contribute to a Soviet victory that is as well-deserved as it is hard-fought. Military Book Club main selection; Literary Guild and Doubl eday Book Club alternates.
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