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Red Storm Rising |  | Author: Tom Clancy
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Rating:  297 reviews
Sales Rank: 15877
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st THUS
Pages: 736
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 042510107X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425101070
ASIN: 042510107X
Publication Date: July 1, 1987
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Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle it out on land, sea, and air for the ultimate global control. A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. It's a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting, suspenseful, and frighteningly real.
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From the author of The Hunt For Red October, a New York Times bestseller for over 40 weeks, comes his greatest performance yet. Red Storm Rising is an alarmingly authentic portrait of escalating aggression between superpowers on all fronts--land, sea, air and space.
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 the BEST Techno-Thriller ever! October 18, 2009
T. Lowe (Austin, TX United States)
If you like adventure, you have to read this! The different plot lines are exquisitely wound together to create a fantastic adventure. It has a politics, submarine battles, tank battles, air force battles, it is awesome! And the ending is phenominal!
This book is so good that even if you have read it, it is a great book to read again on a long trip. (If you have room in your luggage for only one book, bring this one!)
This is the best Tom Clancy novel ever. And Larry Bond should have a credit for this! (The Author's note says "Although Larry's name does not appear on the title page, this book is his as much as mine. We never did figure out a division of labor, but what Larry and I accomplished was to complete a book as co-authors when our only contract as a handshake")
A Storm Worth Weathering September 25, 2009
!Edwin C. Pauzer (New York City)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Red Storm Rising" is the only Tom Clancy novel without its arch hero, Jack Ryan. It is the fictional account of warfare in Europe between the Warsaw Pact forces and NATO. From Iceland where the Soviets open their attack, to Alfeld, Germany, to the sub-hunting in the Atlantic, Clancy demonstrates detailed knowledge of military tactics, weapons and language that add realism to this in-depth account of a Soviet bid for military hegemony in Europe.
You get a hint of the battle to come when a cynical French Military Liaison Officer monitoring a Soviet exercise in East Germany notices with some skepticism that the Soviets are lost again which plays to the NATO stereotype that the Soviets couldn't possibly find their way with signs in a non-Cyrillic alphabet. You know the invasion is coming.
As often happens in warfare, coincidence prevails over the best of planning, and a young air force lieutenant whose only military specialty is weather forecasting, ends up leading two marines. They will play a pivotal role in NATO's retaliation. Another main character is an army sergeant who takes over a tank platoon after his platoon leader's tank is destroyed by a one in a million artillery shell that rips through some of the thinnest armor of a tank---the top. There is also the destroyer commander who duels a Soviet submarine. The story will go back and forth to these characters and others fighting the campaign from many fronts.
My disappointment in this book comes from the sin of pride or esprit de corps. Having spent seven to eight months of the year for three years, in German training centers, towns, and forests planning scenario after scenario of preventing a Soviet incursion into Germany, I was almost insulted there was no mention of the two cavalry regiments that provided early warning for V Corps and VII Corps, the 11th and 2nd Cavalry Regiments, respectively. These units directly blocked the two most likely armor avenues of approach from the east. (Naturally, I was in one of them). And my first question was "Where the hell's Alfeld?"
But the novel is well-written despite my personal feelings, and it is a pleasure to read one that has all the military information correct. I was quite impressed with what he knew about armor. The story kept my interest, and the author had the ability to change the venue just as I was getting very interested in it. It was on the order of "stay tuned when we return 40 pages from now."
The Soviet Union may be gone, but there is still a good story here worth reading. It's a storm worth weathering.
Toujours Pret!
My first tom Clancy Novel June 25, 2009
James W. White (Rochester, New York USA)
...and still my favorite. Well researched, but relevant to the era it was written in. I just reread it and am still entranced by Clancy's storytelling style.
What a rush! May 22, 2009
Prester Dilly
Though I've never been a supporter of war of any kind, I really enjoyed this book. It was the first Clancy book that I ever read and I have loved his work ever since.
The first time I read it was over ten years ago and I liked it so much I have decided to read all of Clancy's books all over again in the order they are to take place.
Not being one of the "Jack Ryan" stories did not take anything away from the entertainment value. It's got thrills, tense situations and plenty of hard battles.
I strongly recommend this book to lovers of espionage and action in general.
 If you like militry fiction, this is for you. April 12, 2009
Reece R. Robbins (Central Coast, CA)
I am a fan of Tom Clancy and have read a number of his books. I had not read this, however, which is one of his first, being written just after "The Hunt for Red October." I picked it up and was not disappointed.
Essentially this book is reading a war game played out between the USSR vs. NATO. It is a "what if" scenario taking into account myriad factors according to Mr. Clancy's idea of what would occur. It is light on character development but heavy with what Clancy is known for: technically accurate, modern military action. The plot moves quickly, and every page I felt like I was learning some new fact about military hardware or doctrine. The characters are stereotypical American military men who nearly always seem to make the right decisions, as is often the case with Clancy. In his later books you start to see American characters that are less moral, but the line between good and evil is always clearly drawn.
As the reader, you are also keenly aware of Mr. Clancy's political and religious stance as he pulls no punches in proclaiming America as the world's greatest country, or Christianity's virtues. He is at times a little heavy handed with it, which can be a good or bad thing depending on the reader's own beliefs, but for me it never detracted from the story to the point where it was annoying as I found to be the case in some of his later books where he preaches to the reader through his characters.
One aspect of this book that I really enjoyed was the way in which Clancy humanizes the Russian Characters. At times, I found myself pulling for some of them which is the mark of a good writer in my mind. In many of his later books, the antagonists are purely evil with no redeeming characteristics. This detracts from the story in my opinion as they become symbols for ideas rather than actual people.
An interesting aspect of reading this book now after having read all of Clany's more recent books with his famous Jack Ryan character, is seeing how the enemy in the books has changed over time. Then it was the Russians, and now in later books it has gone from extremist Muslims to the Chinese. The story remains largely the same in these books, only the enemies change. The plot in this book is incredibly similar to that of "The Bear and the Dragon," only now that the Russians are no longer communists, they are our allies and not our enemies.
On the whole, if you like action and military technology, this will be a great book for you. If those subjects hold little interest for you, you won't find much to like here. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it.
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