Talk:Team Yankee

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

There have been no known film, television, or theatrical adaptations of Team Yankee.

I was a tank company executive officer and then a tank battalion staff officer in the 50th Armored Division in the late 1980s and early 90s, and I personally vouch for the existence of the rumors that a movie version of Team Yankee was being explored. Lyle F. Padilla, MAJ, Armor,USAR (Ret) (lpadilla@voicenet.com) 207.103.47.155 (talk) 06:39, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately we need reliable sources rather than personal testimony. Please see WP:RS for clarification. --Leivick (talk) 07:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Divergences from Sir John Hackett's THE THIRD WORLD WAR: AUGUST 1985?

Although the article states that Coyle based his novel in Hackett's scenario (and I recall reading this from other sources besides the wikipedia,) the plot outlined here seems to be a much more optimistic conventional war scenario than what Hackett had outlined. If I recall Hackett's scenario correctly, the Warsaw Pact forces reached the North Sea in the Netherlands, and had reached the Ruhr Valley as well as occupying parts of Bavaria, Austria, and Italy before being stopped. In the article here, it seems that NATO was counterattacking into the GDR at the time of the nuclear exchange and cease-fire. I haven't read TEAM YANKEE, so I don't know if any of this is discussed in the novel, can someone please clarify?

It seems clear that Coyle made at least one major diversion from the cause of the war -- in Hackett's scenario, a war in post-Tito Yugoslavia leads to Soviet and American intervention.

67.171.69.236 (talk) 07:19, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Image of book cover / WWIII Genre Project

I've made it a personal project to polish and expand the articles of the books in the WWIII genre, and have ran into trouble with the images due to the archaic copyright laws and wikipedias insane image policy. I've written to the publishers and authors (where applicable) of the WWIII books listed on the SEE ALSO part of this article, in order to confirm what peoples common sense should already have told them: NO AUTHOR CARES IF THE COVER IF THEIR BOOK IS ON AN ENCYCLOPEDIA PAGE.

Those disclaimers inside book jackets where they reserve all rights in every form were meant for the era in which these books were published, the 1980s, which is a totally diffrent universe to the one were in now.

When I get their permission I will be putting my own images back up.

I would urge the knee-jerk administrators on here to actually read the upload information this time before hysterically pulling the images.

Try going with the spirit of the law not it's letter, putting the book jacket on wikipedia is promotion of the book not copyright theft, the wikipedia policy in this area is even more insane and dated than the actual laws. At the very least they should wait until they have a complaint before pulling images, but what author in their right mind would have a problem with it? None.

Jericho.Trinity.Omega 1st November 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jericho.Trinity.Omega (talk • contribs) 13:58, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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