If you want a quick and dirty story about modern warfare that gets the technical parts right, find a copy of this book. Unlike Team Yankee, which only dealt with the given conflict at the company level, Sword Point shows Coyle discussing the conflict as a whole. Sword Point's strength is in chronicling the fighting of this war that never happened. Most likely, he was too eager to get to the war itself to be bogged down with exposition, or causation in general. That might explain why Coyle never explains in the book why the hell the USSR is invading Iran to begin with. Given that Coyle admitted to setting Team Yankee inside of another book, namely The Third World War, August 1985, Sword Point gave me the feeling that Coyle read Red Storm Rising and decided to write a book about the invasion of Iran the Soviet's had planned in that book. Apparently, the Soviets wanted to take Iran's oil fields. The story pits the US and USSR in a war in Iran.
In the 1988 techno-thriller "Sword Point" by Harold Coyle, the 25th Armored Division is the designation given to one of the formations mobilized to counter a Soviet invasion of Iran.The second book by Harold Coyle after Team Yankee. In addition to the usual divisional support units the 25th Armored Division was composed of: The division was disposed of by announcing that it had departed the United Kingdom via Southampton in October 1944 along with the other units of the US XXXVII Corps. In the aftermath of Fortitude South II it was depicted as moving to the area around Tidworth Camp in Hampshire during August 1944 where, during September 1944 it was transferred to the command of US XXXVII Corps.
In the deception invasion plan for the Pas de Calais, it would have formed with the British 58th Infantry Division the second wave of the invasion, landing on the US 17th Infantry Division beachhead. The division was initially based around a headquarters at Wincanton, in Somerset, but moved to the vicinity of East Dereham in Norfolk in July 1944. World War II Īs depicted to the Germans the division was formed at Pine Camp, New York in 1941, but did not deploy to England until June 1944 when it joined US XXXIII Corps, US 14th Army. Sword Point Coyle, Harold Published by Simon & Schuster, 1988 ISBN 10: 0671665537 ISBN 13: 9780671665531 Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom Contact seller Seller Rating: First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Good £ 5. The US 25th Armored Division was a 'phantom division' created in 1944 as part of Fortitude South II to replace the real US 5th Armored Division when that unit was deployed to Normandy.
0 kommentar(er)
