by John Hackett
The most important new element in this latest book is some investigation of what it all looked like from the Soviet side. Here I acknowledge a deep debt to a new colleague in Viktor Suvorov, from whose experience and advice I have profited greatly. His own first book, The Liberators (he commanded a motor rifle company in the 'liberation' of Czechoslovakia in 1968), already published, demands attention. He has another book coming out soon.
I am also deeply indebted to Vladimir Bukovsky, a man who in the non-communist world rightly commands enormous respect. The advice he has given me has been most valuable. His own book To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter, is of profound importance.
I have also to thank one of the wisest and kindest of men in Lord Caradon, a very old friend, who gave good counsel and helped us particularly over the Middle East.
I owe more gratitude than I can say to the patience of my wife in putting up with the domestic commotion caused by the creation of this book. I am also deeply indebted to Mrs Carole Beesley, without whose cheerful and efficient help it could hardly have been finished, and to my daughter Elizabeth, whose assistance was crucial. To Jane Heller, finally, of Sidgwick and Jackson, more thanks are owed than any of us in the team could adequately express.
Having said all that I have to add that, although a good many hands have shared in the preparation of this book, the responsibility for anything that may be found wrong with it rests with me.
J. W. Hackett
Coberley Mill, Gloucestershire February 1982
Примечания
1
The Third World War: August 1985 (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, and Macmillan, New York, 1978)
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2
See General Sir John Hackett and others, op. cit., ‘Unrest in Poland’.
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3
This formidable new weapon was carried in a BMP, whose back door let down to form the mortar base plate. The bomb weighed 4 kg and was carried in packs of five, ninety rounds travelling with the mortar, with further ammunition in a back-up armoured load carrier. It could not, of course, be kept in sustained action at maximum rate of fire, any more than the Kalashnikov automatic rifle, which could fire in one minute all the ammunition the rifleman carried. A pack of five rounds fired off in ten seconds would represent an average engagement for the 82 mm automatic mortar.
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4
A small group in the County Donegal who averred that they had actually seen McBride in flight, and sought an opinion from the parish priest as to whether this miraculous occurrence did not merit consideration for canonization, were quite properly sent up Croagh Patrick, on their knees, for their pains.
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5
He survived the war. What has been set out here was learned in a personal interview with ex-Major General Pankratov in the summer of 1986 in his home town of Vyshniy-Volochek between Petrograd and Moscow.
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6
The Hawk 1986, journal published by the Royal Air Force Staff College, Bracknell, England, p. 28.
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7
Air Vice-Marshal Alec Penteith RAF, Tornados in World War III (Chatto and Windus, London 1986), p. 265.
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8
See Sir John Hackett and others, op. cit., pp. 235-6, 238, 241, 257.
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Since published as The Kremlin in Crisis: Soviet Documents of the Third World War, ed. L. Wallin and Ingemar Lundquist (Gustavsson — Swedish language edition — Stockholm 1986, and Simon and Schuster, New York 1987).
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op. cit, pp. 32-3 (NY edition).
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11
Commander B. F. Thermaenius, ‘Swedish Naval Bases’, The Naval Review, Vol. XLVII No. 1, January 1959, p. 21.
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12
Bjorn Osvald, The Crisis in Sweden, August 1985 (Swedish Government Printing Organization, Stockholm 1985, printed also in English, German and French), p. 222.
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13
From ‘The Norwegian Home Guard in the Third World War’, one of a series of articles by B. Ramstedt featured in Aftenposten, Oslo, May 1986
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14
ibid., ‘US Marines in Norway’, June 1986.
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15
See Svenska Dageblad, 1 September 1985.
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16
J. Heller, Submarines at War (Sidgwick and Jackson, London 1987), p. 184.
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17
V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 9 p. 3, quoted in Ian Greig, They Mean What They Say (Foreign Affairs Research Institute, London 1981), p. 14.
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18
M. Gladkov and B. Ivanov, ‘The Economy and Military Technological Policy’, Communist of the Armed Forces, No. 9, May 1972, quoted in Ian Greig, op, cit., p. 57.
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19
G. E. Miller, Vice-Admiral US Navy (retired), former Commander US Second and Sixth Fleets, ‘An Evaluation of the Soviet Navy’, quoted in Grayson Kirk and Nils H. Wessell (eds), The Soviet Threat: Myths and Realities (Praeger, New York 1978), p. 47.
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Quoted in Captain W. J. Draper (Canadian Forces), Colonel P. Monsutti (Italian Army), Group Captain B. T. Sills (RAF), Colonel M. Y. Tanyel (Turkish Army), ‘In Search of a Western Military Strategy for the 1980s, a Group Study’, in Seaford House Papers 1980 (Royal College of Defence Studies London).
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21
Mary McGihon, Women in War (Dutton, New York 1986), p. 348.
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22
Much use has been made in the preceding few pages of material to be found in Lieutenant General Henry J. Irving’s memoirs, entitled Line of Duty (Grosset and Dunlop, New York 1986), see particularly pp. 263, 264-5, 271, 279. We have not been able wholly to endorse General Irving’s approach but are grateful for the source material his book so freely makes available.
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23
See Sir John Hackett and others, op. cit., pp. 266-76.
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24
ibid., pp. 266-76.
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25
See the article by defecting North Korean Ambassador, Kim Kwon-sang, in the Dong a Ilbo of 31 October 1985 (Seoul, South Korea).
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26
For a splendid account of all the excitement, see the article by T. Sakanaka in Asahi Shimbun, 30 August 1985.
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27
See Sir John Hackett and others, op. cit., chapter 25, 'The Destruction of Birmingham', pp. 287 ff.
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28
Alyosha Petrovich Narishkin, A Phoenix Out of Ashes (Bantam, New York 1986), pp. 55-6.
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29
The taped record of this conversation found its way into the hands of an enterprising Italian journalist. The version given above was published in La Stampa on 25 June 1986.
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