Red Storm Rising

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Summary: Epic tome on WWIII
Review: "Red Storm Rising" was already hailed a blockbuster when it was released, but time hasn't dulled its edge. When a sudden petro crisis threatens to grind the Soviet industrial base to a halt (in a grim foreshadowing of the post cold-war era, Azeri separatists sabotage a major petroleum refinery in Siberia; damage from the resulting inferno is exacerbated by a combination of shoddy Soviet safety practices and corrupt cronyism) the Kremlin's leadership and military reaches for the only reasonable response. Believing the west will surely exploit the Soviets' crippled state should the situation become known (the Soviets reveal the loss, but play it down), the Russian leadership mobilizes for war. Their plan: a brilliant pre-emptive strike, one designed to anticipate an imminent assault from the west, and head it off. With Russian armor stabbing into Central Europe, a Soviet amphibious assault force on Iceland and Soviet subs prowling in packs in the North Atlantic, the west is besieged. The plot of "Red Storm" follows individuals on both sides in Iceland, under the Atlantic and in central Europe as the war grinds on.

Though written years ago, nobody has yet matched this book's epic scope. For a book this big and far reaching, it's obviously impossible for Clancy to provide substantive characters for every epic scene. Unfortunately, this results in many scenes in which the only real character is a ship or a plane. Though few of the characters will leap out at you, and some of the dialog may be laughable now (when asked by his Russian prisoners the reason they are being executed, the heroic American officer responds "for Afghanistan".) you'll remember more of what works and remains fresh than what doesn't. As for the techno, few writers were as willing as Clancy to tangle with such spanking new hardware as the MiG-29 and the "Stealth" fighter. (Clancy's stealth fighter was only a conceptual model of what the plane turned out to be, largely inspired by a Testor's model kit based on educated guesses; although the real thing turned out to quite distinct from the concept model, Clancy designs his fighter underlining and revealing so much of the science of stealth and electronic warfare that its substance isn't measurably diminished by the real thing.) What really raises "Red" over most other books is the shear exhaustion suffered by the main characters. This is hardly the heroic wish-fulfillment that critics assume it to be.

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Summary: One of the best thrillers ever written
Review: This book is amazing in scope, depth, and detail. Just the logistics alone of writing a war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. seemed like an impossible task, but Clancy managed to pull it off brilliantly. This book is a page turner. Military buffs will love the detail and dissection of the military strategies and tech info on all sorts of equipment.

Even though 'Hunt For Red October' was made into a hit movie, I've always felt that THIS is the book that should have been made into an epic film.

Highly recommended.

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Summary: A Great Start to His Career
Review: Overall this is the first tour de force for Clancy. He really stated he could map out a large, detailed story and bring it down to the characters in the book. He always does a great job of running a number of sub plots through out the whole book and meeting them up at the end. That is always one of the fun things with one of his books, trying to determine ahead of time how the richly described characters are going to play off of one another for a great climax. The only reason I am not going to give this 5 is that I thought the end of the conflict was rushed.

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Summary: Red Storm Rising is just great!
Review: A great book. The book kept me wondering a little since it never left the European battlefields. I constantly wondered if the other countries of the Warsaw Pact were also fighting with Russia, and how did China and other countries of the world think about the war. Tom Clancy also needs to work on describing the characters' uniforms and arms. Other than these complaints it was a great book.

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Summary: Edge of your seat excitement!
Review: This just might be Tom Clancy's most memorable novel. Invoking his vast knowledge and understanding of the military hardware of both the United States as well as the former Soviet Union, Clancy presents to us a believable novel. The story details a conventional World War III between the two Superpowers.

What comes to the forefront in the book is the authentic nature of the strategies imposed by both sides in the war. The deployment and use of sundry weapons is very logical, and Clancy's thorough familiarity with the aresnals form a solid foundation on which to wager which weapons system would win out when each is set against the counterpart of its adversary.

The battle scenes (of which there are many) are well written and hold the reader's attention with their gripping detail of the action. While not as graphic as other war novels I've read, the diction is nonetheless sufficiently gory to remind the reader of what serious business war is - in any age.

If you're interested in a credible book on what a conventional WWIII would look like, I doubt if there's a better novel out there than this one. Everything from descriptions of the battle landscapes to the disturbing thoughts by the Soviets to go ahead & use their nuclear missiles is all finely and meticulously crafted. It's Clancy at his very best.

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Summary: Red Storm Rising
Review: The book Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy is a phenomanol book. It is a book about the Russian government and how they start a war with Germany. One of the main characters is a man named Alekseyev. After the Russians supply of oil is destroyed, the Russian party decides to have Alekseyev lead a war against Germany.
On the other side of the war are the Germans and their allies the Americans. As the Americans and Russians send out more submarines to destroy each other the war becomes more heated. One thing fueled the Americans to want to win. If they didn't win they would be killed, and that wasn't what they had in mind.
Red Storm Rising is a very good book with danger around every corner. The book will keep you reading for two reasons. One with the battles on land, sea, and air you won't want to put the book down. Second you actually feel as if you are their in the book. There was one challenge when reading this book. There are a lot of Russian names which makes the reading very hard. But if you want a good, suspenseful book you should read Red Storm Rising.

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Summary: Red Storm Rising Review
Review: The book Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy is a phenomanol book. It is a book about the Russian government and how they start a war with Germany. One of the main characters in the book is a man named Alekseyev. After a group of Muslims destroy the Russian's oil supply, the Russian party decides that Alekseyev should lead the war with Germany so they can get more oil.
Then on the other side of the war is Germany and their allies the Americans. As the Americans and Russians send out more submarines to destroy each other, the war became more heated. One thing fueled the fire for the Americans, the Americans had to win or be killed by the Russians, and they didn't like being killed.
The book Red Storm Rising is a very good book with a surprise around every turn. The book kept me reading with the suspense, and the battles of life and death on land, sea, and in the air. The way that Tom Clancy writes this book he makes you feel as if you were right their in the submarine waiting for the enemy to fire their torpedo at you. Although the book is very good there is one challenge, the reading. The book is very hard to read with a lot of Russian names, but if you want a very good, suspenseful book you should read Red Storm Rising.

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Summary: This is the way World War Three Would Be
Review: This is one of the earlier books by Tom Clancy, and is the only fiction novel he's written that's not part of the Jack Ryan series. But it's also one of his best. The subject is World War Three, between the USSR and the Western World (this was written before the fall of the Berlin Wall). The plot is extremely plausible. A terrorist attack on one of the largest oil refineries in Russia leaves the USSR without adequate resources, and they realize they must control the oil of the Middle East to survive. They devise a plot to get the American forces committed to a major war in Europe and then once they've won in Europe, to go in and control the Middle East for themselves. This plot is very well conceived, and even better executed.

There is a huge cast of characters, everything from commanders of tanks engaged in battles throughout Eastern Europe to naval convoys hunting Soviet submarines using the most modern technology. The most interesting storyline, in my opinion, is a small group of soldiers in Iceland hiding from the Soviets who are hunting them.

This is a book about warfare and its heroes. You learn a lot about how war in the future might be fought (not nuclear, since the characters in the story all realize the devastation that would occur with nuclear war, and neither side is willing to introduce it). The characters are memorable and well developed. I especially enjoyed the sections of the book focused on the naval escorts as they hunted for enemy submarines. I learned a great deal about the tactics of war, but I also got the chance to read a great adventure novel that was very broad in scope and had scores of memorable characters.

If you'd like to read a Tom Clancy book that's self contained and yet has all the intrigue, technology and action in the best of his Jack Ryan stories, this is the book. It's thick, but it reads so fast and so easily that you'll find yourself racing through it.

And when you're done, you'll be hooked on Tom Clancy.

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Summary: Three Stars for WWIII
Review: Tom Clancy's reputation had me expecting a little more from his first project. He did demonstrate a mastery of military technology, procedures and jargon. Thank God WWIII never happened in this way, this book will make you count your blessings. One of the things this book seemed to be missing was the human side of war, the only exception was the activity in Iceland which was excellent in that regard. The book was very entertaining and there was a lot of heart-pumping ACTION. For my next Clancy I'm going to try Without Remorse which is supposed to be a little more character-driven. Many writers strike it big on their first try and subsequent efforts seem to miss the mark, my gut feeling tells me that Clancy's work only got better with time and practice.

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Summary: Not Jack Ryan, But Still Good
Review: I gotta say when i first started "Red Storm Rising" i was pessimistic. Without Jack Ryan, or John Clark how would it fare? Well "Bob Toland" is almost a carbon copy of Jack Ryan, which i find.. not so good. He`s an intelligence analyst at the NSA instead of CIA, and even get`s deployed to a Carrier early on. But this book isnt about character development, i think of it as a spin-off of Clancy work, it concentrattes on the Soviet/NATO war BRILLIANTLY. It was made mid-80`s so the technology is a little outdated with some things, but he describes the war jumping theatre to theatre just great. Im kind of hoping Clancy write`s a book like this (or one of his older ones like Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger) in his next book instead of all the polotical stuff like his newer ones. His biggest mistake, IMO, was making Jack Ryan president.