About the book: year / A novel by British general and writer Sir John Hackett about a hypothetical Third World War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. Published in 1982 by Sidgwick & Jackson. It is an addition to Hackett’s earlier novel “The Third World War: August 1985”, adding several new storylines and adjusting the picture of the war taking into account changed geopolitical realities. In its own way, a brilliant work of a team of retired senile... British officers under the command of the former commander of the Northern NATO Army Group, Sir John Hackett, who revived the genre of victorious military fiction in the early 80s.