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Summary: Brilliantly written! One of Tom Clancy's best!
Review: This is my first Tom Clancy novel, and I gotta tell you, I have never read a more detailed book on the clash of the two superpowers (NATO and the Warsaw Pact) than this! Brilliantly written, but sometimes it got just a little too boring. The information was little weak in this novel, for example, Mig-29's were shot down like they were Mig-21's. In real life, it would be real hard to shoot a Mig-29 down because of its superior agility. Most of all the book didn't include that much Soviet carrier operations against the west. But anyhow, this was written in 1985, when information on the Mig-29 and Soviet carriers was really scarce.
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Summary: Fantastic. Masterpiece
Review: This book is excellent. By far Clancy's best
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Summary: Clancy's Best.
Review: I began reading Clancy novels at age 14 while stuck at home over the summer. In recent years I've grown tired of Clancy's habit of gratuitously injecting his right-wing opinions (which really slow his books down), his clunkey, tech-laden prose, and his one-dimensional characters. But I still, at age 22, have a fondness for Red Storm Rising.The plot is perfect for Clancy's story-telling skills: WWIII breaks out between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The emphasis is on story and action rather than on character and the story and action are terrific. One gets the sense that this is really how a Cold War WWIII could have been like. Even the ending is somewhat plausible. Excellant work.
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Summary: Great book, his best
Review: A truly great book and definetly Clancy's best. Remember this book was written in 1985. So some things no longer apply. The F-19 for example is really the then top secret F-117. And if you remember from Desert Storm our weapons proved more than capable of leveling T-72 tanks.
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Summary: Simply put: brilliance!
Review: This is my all time favorite book, ever! I loved how in the end, it spoke about how the codes to the nuclear warheads couldn't be found after the death of the kgb chairman. Plus tons more! It was soooooooo awesome!
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Summary: This book was very boring.
Review: RSR was a book so much filled with techno jibberish I had to stuff it away on my bookshelf of bad books. When I pick it up twenty-five years from now, it may seem a little more realistic, but not now. This is one of the worst "Clancy" books I've ever read. Please Mr. Clancy, next time you think of a WW3 type of book, make it so it can be easily understood.
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Summary: It was pretty good.
Review: This book was very well writen and was one of my all-time favorites. However, it does have some aspects of unrealism. The "F-19" never existed. I think he just put it in there to give NATO a fighting chance. Otherwise, the Russians would probably have won, unless NATO used some special trick so that they would win.
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Summary: CLANCY's best
Review: This is my favorite Clancy novel. I'm also happy to say that hollywood has yet to water it down on film. There is action and suspense going on all the time, in many areas. Regardless of what some critics write, I found it a plausible scenario. I don't know a lot about the technicalities of modern warfare, but Clancy has a good track record and after Desert Storm I'm not about to underestimate the capibilities of the U.S. forces.
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Summary: This is just a story for another american movie
Review: It would be a good movie, but in reality III World war would be much different. We read books and wach movies to expirience what we want to expirience. In the reald world III world war would last for decades, without the nuclear weapons. And at last there would be no winners.
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Summary: Unralistic
Review: World War 3 broke out. The USSR is trying to crush NATO. I'm going to upset Clancy's fans. I think it's one of the worst his books. It's absolutely unrealistic from the first line to the last. What do I mean? I try to concretize. I will not touch political issues 1. The fable of conflict is sabotage of the biggest oil refinery in the USSR after which the USSR lost more than half it's fuel output. It cannot be just because the fuel refining is not so centralized over there how Tom thinks. 2. Clancy too easy 'defeated' Soviet ground forces. Did you ever heard that NO ONE western antitank weapon can't penetrate newer soviet tank's front armor (since T-72)? That's true, read Jane's! Altogether, Russian tanks well better armored than their western counterparts, except Israel Merkava and they have much lower profile. They have also more powerful guns and they are more maneuverable. And Russian tanks are far lighter than western ones. Learn, western tank designers! 3. The naval warfare is closer to reality. But... Russian antiship missile Mosquit (Sunburn) has speed M 5. Can you imagine how to defend against such treat? I can't. 4. The soviet military putsch and attack on Kremlin. It is also impossible to imagine. Kremlin is much better defended than anyone can think. The Soviet leaders always worried about their personal security more than about something else. So, this attack against Kremlin is at least laughworthy. I can add many more bugs like this, but I hope you got the point. Tom Clancy was pretty bad informed and he did this book in hurry using mostly computer games
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