We were lined up alphabetically in a huge formation. With hundreds of others I showed up at the induction station in Portland, OR on the morning of June 12, 1968. My view was strengthened further by being drafted during the Vietnam War. Hitler came to power and 70 million of this planet’s citizens ended up dying because of his perversion.
It was Remarque’s admirable attempt, after seeing what was happening in Germany in the period between the two World Wars, to warn his country away from making the same mistake again.
Although told from the perspective of a German soldier it easily transfers over to being a story about all soldiers caught in that nightmare and in all future wars. It is by far the best anti-war novel I’ve ever read. My favorite book in high school was Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front – a story about the reality of being an ordinary soldier in the trenches of World War I. I’m not saying war is never justified (World War II for example where we had no choice but to defend ourselves) but that we are far too casual with the lives of others and the cruel toll such events take on all of us. I have probably always had a strong anti-war view of the follies of needlessly killing our fellow man. There’s one thing that’s certain.Q: Where did you receive inspiration for THE RED LINE? The thin line between victory and defeat is also the
While he works, it’s up to hundreds of individual American soldiers to hold back the enemy flood. Army Staff Sergeant George O'Neill, a communications specialist, may be able to reestablish links that have been severed by hostile forces, but that will take time. But before the sun rises they are on the run across a smoking battlefield crowded with corpses.Īny slim hope for victory rests with one unlikely hero. What they lack in numbers they make up for in superior weapons and training. Standing against them are the woefully undermanned American forces. With a powerful blizzard providing cover, Russian tanks thunder down the autobahns while undercover Spetsnaz teams strike at vulnerable command points. World War III explodes in seconds when a resurgent Russian Empire launches a deadly armored thrust into the heart of Germany. “Delta-Two, I’ve got tanks through the wire! They’re everywhere!” WWIII explodes in this electrifying debut military thriller in the tradition of Red Storm Rising and The Third World War.
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