| JasonAfrika | 09 Sep 2014 3:39 p.m. PST |
Can anyone suggest Cold War novels based in Arctic conditions besides Ice Station Zebra? Phoenix Force White Hell comes to mind…any others? |
| Lion in the Stars | 09 Sep 2014 3:43 p.m. PST |
There's a chunk of Red Storm Rising on Iceland, but I vaguely remember that book was set in the summer. Firefox Down is mostly set in the Arctic. |
| Mako11 | 09 Sep 2014 4:22 p.m. PST |
Can't think of any, currently. Perhaps there will be a new rash of them, sometime next year, if the Russkies/Putin make a play for the Baltic nations, and/or they cut off gas supplies to the EU this Winter. Hmmm, there was one, can't recall the name right now, but it was of a Soviet-era attack on Norway/NATO, with an F-16 (IIRC) shown on the cover. It was fairly good. |
jurgenation  | 09 Sep 2014 5:10 p.m. PST |
There was a movie in the 80's where the soviets invaded the Alaskan pipeline and fought it out the Alaskan national unit hiding in the pipeline pipes,I believe the unit was from the Eskimo scouts.I can't remember the name of the movie,it might have been a ABC movie of the week,it was made for T.V.,I'll search for it.I found it,I know it's not a book,but it was the NBC miniseries "WW111" |
| ScottS | 09 Sep 2014 10:12 p.m. PST |
link Yes, "World War III" was the miniseries. There was also the SPI wargame "War in the Ice." Not a novel, but it still had some interesting and fun ideas. |
| Gennorm | 10 Sep 2014 12:05 a.m. PST |
Arctic Strike by Michael Palmer. |
| GeoffQRF | 10 Sep 2014 2:19 a.m. PST |
What did the Norwegians use as an assault rifle in the Cold War? I've seen AG3 (G3) up to about the mid 1970s, and the HK416, but that doesn't seem to have come into use until about 2008. |
| Ewan Hoosami | 10 Sep 2014 3:29 a.m. PST |
The Bedford Incident was a great Cold War Movie about a USN warship shadowing a Russian sub in Arctic waters |
| boy wundyr x | 10 Sep 2014 7:14 a.m. PST |
These aren't pure Cold War era books, but the "Carrier" series by Keith Douglass has some books with naval air battles in the Arctic, and the Ian Slater WWIII series has some in northern China/Siberia. Both are pure war porn, Slater is goofier though (Rangers parachuting into Tibet, as an e.g.). "The Ten Thousand" by Harold Coyle is set in northern Germany in the winter, if that's close enough, but it's more of a NATO civil war. |
| Mako11 | 11 Sep 2014 3:22 p.m. PST |
Gennorm for the win……. That's the one I was thinking of. |
| Krieger | 12 Sep 2014 2:23 a.m. PST |
Geoff, the Norwegian army did indeed use the G3 throughout the cold war and beyond! I'm sorry but I can't remember any other cold war books in arctic conditions, not even Swedish books on the subject tend to take place in the winter. Jan Guillou's "no man's land" has part of the story taking place in the russian tundra. No idea if it's available in english. Part of the book is subject to the film adoptation in "Hamilton". |
| Weasel | 13 Sep 2014 10:40 p.m. PST |
Tangential, but the "When Hell Froze Over" book is a fantastic read. It's not quite cold war, but it IS Americans fighting Russians in Archangel during the Russian revolution. Outstanding read and plenty of winter fighting for sure. |
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