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Chieftains is a frighteningly authentic 'best-selling' novel of the invasion of Europe by the Russian and Warsaw Pact armed forces seen through the eyes of the fighting men on the ground.In particular it tells the story of the crew of Bravo Two, a Chieftain main battle tank of the British 4th Armoured Division, and also that of the crew of 'Utah', an American Abrams of the 5th United States Force, as both units face the onslaught of the Soviet armour onto the killing zones of the German Plain. 'Chieftains' has been rated the best-ever novel of tank warfare. General Sir John Hackett who reviewed it, stated that it was 'a dramatic and authentic account'. Impeccably researched at military bases in the UK and Europe, and with the assistance of the British Ministry of Defense, Allied forces armoured personnel and ex-servicemen with battle experiences in various theatres of war, 'Chieftains' was written during the darkest and most tense period of the 'Cold War' between East and West. The book brutally shows what could have happened as a Third World War began.

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262 pages
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English
Publication date

Feb. 5 2012
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12.7 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
ISBN-10

1468180959
ISBN-13

978-1468180954
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Forrest-Webb is a literary award-winning, best-selling, professional author. Born in Nottingham but raised and schooled in Merseyside, he has had more than 20 novels published in hardback and paperback, and in most European languages. One novel became a Disney film, another a long-running musical. He has written for TV, radio and the theatre. He writes under his own name and three pseudonyms. He has served in the British armed forces and is a keen sportsman, having been a British kayak National Champion and representing the UK internationally in the World Canoe Championships (K1 500 meters), and again a few years later as a 'works' sponsored international-class motor-cross rider, racing in the UK, in France, Algeria, and in the BBC's TV motor-cross series. He is a 7th Dan black belt in aikido, having been awarded that high grade by The Japan Aikido Association, and The British Aikido Association. He is also a judo black belt. He has been the senior instructor of a martial arts club in Wales for the past 34 years, and prior to that founded clubs in Hampshire and London. He has never accepted payment from students for martial arts instruction. Until he began writing novels he was a journalist and worked for several British national newspapers, before becoming executive editor for a well-known UK magazine publishing group. He lives and writes on a farm in the Marcher country between England and Wales and maintains an active participant interest in country sports. He is still writing.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Feb. 5 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1468180959
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1468180954
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 295 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #149,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,914 in War Fiction (Books)

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Budd Renaud

Entertaining, albeit dated and with a very disappointing end

Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2019

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Overall, an entertaining read if you can turn your brain off for a little while. The author puts a bit too much focus and detail into describing the scene, surroundings and tactical positioning to the point where it gets a bit distracting and difficult to follow. Half way through the novel I started briefly skimming the first few paragraphs of each scene or chapter as it was largely irrelevant. The author states in the beggining of the book that many of the technical details have been altered to protect military secrets, and at the time I'm sure that this was an issue, however several decades later the effect is a bit comical and in many cases outright absurd.

To the author's credit, they avoid many of the cliche's found in similar works and manage to keep things engaging throughout.

Unfortunately the author appears to have given up on finding a way proper way to end the tale of our armored heroes, or was in danger of missing a deadline, as instead of wrapping up the story he provides a very lazy and blunt end that leaves a bad taste.

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The realism of what a tank crewman does,

Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2019

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Very realistic! I served in the Royal Canadian armoured Corps as a Leopard tank gunner back in the mid 70’s to mid 90’s during the Cold War in southern west Germany. The writer brings back to me the smell of diesel fuel and cordite. Loved the book!

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tim

Life as a tank crewman.

Reviewed in Canada on May 10, 2019

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Really enjoyed this book,it puts you right in the thick of the acton.
Marvelous.

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Reviewed in Canada on March 10, 2020

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really good interesting read as a former chieftain tank driver

Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2014

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This was an outstanding book in the style of Red Storm Rising. Would love to read a sequel from the author!

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Boring

Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2014

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There are some books I just can't get into and this was one of them. After reading about a quarter of the book I decided to cut my losses and move on. For a war novel there was just no excitement. Some books are just a waste of money.

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An End Times Reader

Outstanding novel! Written to reflect the realities of war ...

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2017

Outstanding novel! Written to reflect the realities of war! There is no false glory or bravado within the main characters presented. Simply scared men doing what they've been trained to do. The battle descriptions are intense to the point where the reader is drawn in as a silent member with the crew.

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Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2011

I first read this book whilst serving as a member of an Armoured Regiment serving in BAOR. It is perhaps, one of the most descriptive accounts (although fictional) of what may have happened in the Cold War when things went wrong. Voice procedure of that time has been altered but callsigns quite clearly identify down to crew level.

A very good read and well worth the current price.

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A. S. Hunt

Best of three

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2019

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Between Red Army's chilling (if implausible) account of a hydra-headed Soviet juggernaut and Team Yankee's somewhat implausible accounts of AMERICA WHOOO! rampages through Soviet armour, Chieftain's is probably one of the most tactically plausible books written about a cold-war-gone-hot scenario.

It depicts Western forces beaten, falling back, units destroyed, people taken prisoner and subject to interrogation. It depicts casualties to silly accidents as well as enemy fire, as well as the thoroughly brutal nature of mechanised warfare. It also depicts the Soviets as beatable, as capable of being stopped, as both fallible and clever, dangerous opponents. It also has a realistic depiction of escalation to NBC warfare.

The book, sadly, ends rather strangely and abruptly, making it almost an inverse of Ralph Peter's Red Army in that it is a less-compelling human story, but a better war story.

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From okay to laughable in one chapter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2020

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This book treats the Soviet attack with a bit more respect than Team Yankee. The early chapters, with Nato forces falling back in an attempt to slow the Soviet juggernaut, has a ring of authenticity. However, this is thrown away in the laughable chapter where the tortured British officer goes full Rambo on a whole troop of Soviets. I could not believe that the book had done such a complete 180 spin and thought I must be misreading it...but sadly not. Utter nonsense from a book that made such a good start.

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Mr. I. Roberts

A great read with just a little annoying inaccuracies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2020

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Overall this is a good book and, in my view, worthy of four stars. Why not five? Well, there are some inaccuracies in technology, command structure and SF tactics. You would never (not in a million years) have a "platoon" of SAS soldiers commanded by a captain in the Household Cavalry, unless of course he is in the Regiment. The SAS also don't use the battalion structure of companies and platoons so there is no such thing as a platoon commander. That said and if you can ignore the inaccuracies, the story is good and the ending sudden but impactful. Definitely what we feared as soldiers and as a civilisation during the Cold War.

J P Sullivan

Could have been great, achieved ok.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2021

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This book was ok, a work of fiction for sure but it almost bordered on fantasy, propaganda/disinformation.

A copy of Janes Defence weekly would have been beneficial, but sadly research evaded the author.

The plot was good but the execution was poor, just as it got to the good plot device, everyone died.

It was like the author had an urgent dental appointment, and needed to finish the book and get out the door.

I was disappointed, this could have been an epic.

Carole_S

World of Tanks this isn't

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2018

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This is a a work of fiction written in the early 1980's, a time of straightened finances, high drama in Cold War relations and deep, deep cuts in the defence budgets. If you might remember, John Nott was sometimes referred to as "The Mad Axeman". The plot consists mainly, but not exclusively, of following the fortunes of a Chieftain tank crew during a full-on invasion of Western Germany by the Warsaw pact. It's all very exciting, if somewhat pessimistic, stuff. The book ends oddly almost as if the author got fed-up writing, or as though he'd dug himself such a deep hole there was no way to continue. A quite unsatisfactory end in my view. Worth the read nevertheless.

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