Books and Media

1988

World War III-Team Yankee-a novel by Harold Coyle

I picked up this novel right after it came out, and read it in Fulda.  It follows a Tank Team, or Company, during WWIII.  Team Yankee fights our fight, the one that never was: Tank warfare, on German soil, in the late 1980's, against invading Soviet forces.  The story even includes the planned evacuation of dependants through Rhein-Main.

Wikipedia link.

Have you read this book?  If you've read it, what'd you think?

Hardcover Publisher: Presidio Pr (August 1, 1987)

ISBN: 0891412905

Paperback Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group; Reissue edition (March 1, 1994)

ISBN: 0425110427

2003

"Major General Maurice Rose - World War II's
Greatest Forgotten Commander"

GEN. ROSE BIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE AGAIN
Re-released in June, 2006

Latest Information

The publisher has announced that the book, originally issued in 2003, is now available again and carries a list price of $18.95. Online booksellers, such as Amazon, Booksamillion (BAMA), Borders, and Barnes & Noble are offering discounted prices in the $12 - $13 range.

The book, originally a hardcover, is now a 6x9-inch, 436-page softcover. The publisher is Taylor Trade Publishing of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, New York, City.

http://www.3ad.com/history/news/rose.book.1.htm

2005

A no-holds-barred account from the tip of the Army’s spear

 
   

Heavy Metal

http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=89768

A Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad

 
 
320 pages; 9" x 9"; 36 B&W photos; maps
 

Description:

During the Iraq War, coauthor Capt. Jason Conroy commanded Charlie Company, which was part of Task Force 1-64, 2d Brigade Combat Team, part of the U.S. Army’s 3d Infantry Division. A tank unit equipped with mammoth M1A1 Abrams tanks, Conroy’s company was literally at the tip of the U.S. Army’s spear and one of the first elements into Baghdad. Veteran journalist Ron Martz was embedded in Charlie Company. Together, from the unique perspective of an armor unit that was in nearly continuous combat for four straight weeks, Conroy and Martz tell the unvarnished story of what went right and what went deadly wrong in Iraq. Conroy and his soldiers were able to overcome supply shortages, intelligence failures, and miserable weather to battle their way into downtown Baghdad, a place where they were told they would never have to fight. Heavy Metal evaluates the Army’s performance, including its use of tactics that were developed during the war but for which the soldiers had never trained.

Through the exciting personal stories of the young troopers of Charlie Company - who experienced a very different war from what was seen back home on TV - Heavy Metal tells us much about the qualities of today’s American soldier, about twenty-first-century desert and urban warfare, and about how the Army should prepare to fight future wars.

About The Authors:

Ron Martz writes on defense issues for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His books include Solitary Survivor: The First American POW in Southeast Asia (with Lawrence R. Bailey, Jr.; Brassey’s, Inc., 1995) and White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea (with Ben Malcom; Brassey’s, Inc., 1996), which Publishers Weekly praised as "exciting reading." He lives in Roswell, Georgia.

Capt. Jason Conroy, USA, is now stationed with the Army’s Space and Missile Command in Huntsville, Alabama.

2005

Love My Rifle More than YouLove My Rifle More than You

Young and Female in the U.S. Army

Kayla Williams With Michael E. Staub

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall05/006098.htm
A brutal and honest account of being a woman among men in the United States Army.
 
SMART, ATTRACTIVE, and full of insight, Kayla Williams was part of the 15 percent of the United States Army that is female. She is also a great storyteller with a voice that leaps off the page—fiercely funny, tough, vulnerable, and humane. She tells of why she enlisted and how she came to be assigned to learn Arabic; of her fractured relationship with a Palestinian boyfriend and later her failed marriage to a civilian; of her experience watching 9/11 unfold on Arabic television and the drunken parties at her army base in the weeks leading up to her deployment to Iraq.
 
While deployed, Williams is immersed in bravery and bigotry, strength and fear, sexism and loyalty. She witnesses death up close and sees soldiers cross the line between interrogation and torture. She befriends locals but finds herself pointing her weapon at an Iraqi child. An unsparing self-portrait of a rebellious patriot, Williams's story offers an unprecedented and no-holds-barred young woman's perspective into the U.S. Army.
 
KAYLA WILLIAMS was formerly a sergeant in a military intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). She lives in the Washington, DC, area.
 
September 2005 / hardcover / ISBN 0-393-06098-5 / 8 pages of photographs / 288 pages / MEMOIR