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The Third World War and The Third World War: The Untold Story are war novels by General Sir John Hackett, published in 1978 and 1982, by Macmillan in New York and Sidgwick & Jackson in London, respectively.
Hackett, nicknamed "Shan", was born in Perth, Western Australia.His Irish Australian father, also named Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848–1916), originally from County Tipperary, [1] was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1871; M.A., 1874), and he emigrated to Australia in 1875, eventually settling in Western Australia in 1882, where he became a newspaper proprietor and editor and a ...
The Third World War: August 1985 by John Hackett; Smiley's People by John le Carr ...
Team Yankee is a techno-thriller novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle, then a major in the United States Army.Set during the World War III scenario outlined in Sir John Hackett's novel The Third World War: The Untold Story, the novel follows the titular United States Army armored company-sized team in combat against the Soviet Union after the Warsaw Pact invades Western Europe.
He contributed to the books The Third World War: August 1985 (1978) and The Third World War: The Untold Story (1982), both attributed to General Sir John Hackett but mostly written by several collaborators. [2] [3]
He collaborated with General Sir John Hackett and others in writing the two fictional volumes of The Third World War (1978 & 1982). His later books include: Gentlemen in Khaki: The British Army 1890-1990 (1989), The Duke and the Emperor: Wellington and Napoleon (1994) and Churchill and Hitler: In Victory and Defeat (1997).
Steve Hackett says he's "honoring the best of what we did" with Genesis Revisited, playing "Seconds Out" in career-spanning setlist on 2022 tour.
Hackett had written in 1978 a novel, The Third World War: August 1985, which was a fictionalized scenario of a Soviet Army invasion of West Germany in 1985. The novel was followed in 1982 by The Third World War: The Untold Story, which elaborated on the original. Farrar-Hockley had aroused controversy in 1983 when he became involved in trying ...