The Best Military What-If [...]
Discover the best military what-if books, from Tom Clancy's *Red Storm Rising* to Larry Bond's *Red Phoenix*. Explore gripping alternate history, imaginary wars, and battle scenarios in this curated reading list.
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Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy
From the author of the Jack Ryan series comes an electrifying #1 New York Times bestseller—a standalone military thriller that envisions World War 3... A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you will never forget. Hard-hitting. Suspenseful. And frighteningly real. “Harrowing...tense...a chilling ring of truth.”—TIME
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Arc Light
by Eric L. Harry
A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and the United States. Reprint. NYT.
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Vortex
by Larry Bond
As the forces of white supremacy make their last ruthless stand in South Africa and the world faces Armageddon, America mobilizes Operation Brave Fortune, a full-scale war effort waged on land, at sea, and in the air. "Bond is good. . . . I started sweating on the first page".--Stephen Coonts.
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Red Phoenix
by Larry Bond
This thundering geopolitical thriller dares reveal the military hardware, global upheavals, and raw combat that a second Korean War would unleash.
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War in 2020
by Ralph Peters
As the Soviet Union crumbles, Colonel George Taylor leads the Seventh Cavalry, America's experimental airborne regiment in a battle featuring ECM systems and laser guided projectiles.
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Blitzfreeze
by Sven Hassel
It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia... The 27th Penal Regiment have been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved and ill-equipped. To reach Moscow they must defeat the fearsome Red Army. But instead, they find themselves at the mercy of an even deadlier enemy: the killer cold of the Russian winter. As they advance across the icy wastes, they think only of survival.
