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 World War III: August 1985, adding several new storylines and adjusting the picture of the war to take into account changing geopolitical realities. In its own right, a brilliant work by a team of retired senile... British officers under the command of the former commander of NATO's Northern Army Group, Sir John Hackett, which revived the genre of victorious military fiction in the early 80s.