General Sir John Hackett – A Certain Point of View, Too

Book Review: ‘The Third World War: The Untold Story’

Sep 21, 2022

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Dies Irae: The Story Continues…. In early 1982, Sidgwick & Jackson of London and Macmillan Publishing of New York published The Third World War: The Untold Story, a war novel co-written by General Sir John Hackett and seven collaborators, many of whom had co-written The Third World War: August 1985, published four years earlier and,…

On Books & Reading: An Oral History of 9/11, and Observations About ‘The Third World War’ Duology

Sep 19, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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The Growing TBR Stack My copy of Garrett M. Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 arrived yesterday at 4:56 PM. I retrieved it from our front porch where the Amazon Prime driver had dropped it off, and within a few minutes I had taken it out of its shipping…

Book Review: ‘The Third World War: August 1985’

Sep 15, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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On May 1, 1978, London-based Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. published The Third World War: August 1985: A Future History, a work of near-future speculative fiction by Sir John Hackett, a retired general in the British Army, and a group of co-authors that, according to the publisher, included an admiral, an economist, and a diplomat, all…

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Book Review: ‘The Third World War: The Untold Story’

On Books & Reading: An Oral History of 9/11, and Observations About ‘The Third World War’ Duology

Book Review: ‘The Third World War: August 1985’