Anybody here read Harold Coyle?

[Dr Zaius]

I'm reading Sword Point now and it's very good. I highly recommend him if you like books about modern combat.

 

[Gary]

I've read Team Yankee by the same author. I agree with you Don, excellent modern warfare author.

Gary

 

[Deltapooh]

I have The Ten Thousand and Code of Honor. The scenario in The Ten Thousand was unrealistic, but he did a great job of explaining the combat phase. (Xth Corps march would make an excellent DA campaign.) I also thought he did a great job with Code of Honor. I don't read fiction too much, but agree Harold Coyle is a great author of ground warfare novels.

 

[Ivan Rapkinov]

Read them all - Bright Star is the best and most realistic - you'd love the raid on Al Fasher airfield Don.

 

[Foggy]

I think "Team Yankee" is the best - the Ten Thousand seems a tad bit unrealistic.

 

[CPangracs]

I'm reading Sword Point now and it's very good. I highly recommend him if you like books about modern combat.

Wow, you're only, what, 15 years late?!

LOL! Just kidding, yes, I've read all of his books and find them a fairly fast read, if a little lacking in the techno-depth. It's a good kind of book for people who don't have a real good grasp on how the military worked "back in the day". No slam agaionst you, Don. You may also find the love interests and such a bit disconcerting. But hey! At least they didn't wear blue rubber gloves and take pictures of it!

 

[Jean St. Marc]

His "Team Yankee" was pretty good, but the follow-on books seemed to get shallower and more fantastic, sort of like Dirk Pitt books. Easy to read ... but realistic?

 

[Dr Zaius]

I read Team Yankee when it first came out, but I didn't pick up his other books until recently. I used to read quite a bit of Tom Calncy, but his stuff is too much in the SF realm to suit me most of the time.

 

[Red]

I realy liked "team Yankee" at the Bn and lower level.

But I wasnt so found of the "intrigues" portrayed between Bn and Bg level.

The "world situstion" plot realy didnt convince me, but that probably wasnt the point of the book anyway.

 

[Ivan Rapkinov]

the world situation was set out in Sir General John Hackett's The Third World War, now a quaint little piece of alarmist literature, then a believable scenario that had military planners running for the plotting tables.

 

[Foggy]

Is it true they made Sir Hackett rewrite the book w/ a happy ending?

 

[Ivan Rapkinov]

Foggy: honestly don't know. Probably - can't imagine having a former CoS (he was one wasn't he?) fictionalising the destruction of UK cities for no gain was a good propaganda move