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In 1978, General Sir John Hackett (a retired, although he never liked the word, Australian-born British general who led a brigade at [[A Bridge Too Far|Arnhem]]) and a bunch of other high-ranking ex-military and diplomatic people, some contributing anonymously wrote a book on a possible [[World War Three]], '''''The Third World War: [[The Great Politics Mess-Up|August 1985]]'''''.
Written in the style of a history book written in 1987, it had the war start over the collapse of Yugoslavia, with Moscow starting to lose control over the [[Warsaw Pact]]. The USSR launch their main offensive against [[West Germany]]. There is fighting the world over, including in space.
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Before this period, the [[NATO]] powers realise the Soviet threat, engage in a crash re-arming programme (including bringing back the draft in the US) and prepare their peoples to survive a conventional conflict as well as a nuclear one.
NATO wins and the USSR collapses, but not before [[Sweet Home Midlands|Birmingham]] (the British one, not the [[Sweet Home Alabama|American one]]) is nuked by the USSR and Minsk nuked in return.
The book sold over 3 million copies.
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* ''World at War: Eisenbach Gap''
* Dean Ing did a trilogy (''Systemic Shock'', ''Single Combat'', and ''Wild Country'') beginning in a 1996 which clearly follows from this book; the first chapter specifically mentioned the nuking of Birmingham and Minsk.
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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''[[Future War 198 X]]'', an obscure anime movie loosely based on it.▼
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]] (the journals of three civil defence centres in the UK at the back of the first book, one of those centres happening to be in Birmingham and ending mid-word)
* [[Author Tract]] (admitted as such)
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* [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]]- a couple actually:
** In the first book, Jimmy Carter serves two full terms. The second implies [[Ronald Reagan]] stood down after one term.
** It's stated in the first book that [[Channel
* [[Strawman Political]] (Hackett and his team have a clear dislike of militant trade unionists, although they never state they are knowingly doing Moscow's bidding, just that they're considered "useful fools"- a line commonly attributed to Lenin)
* [[Superior Firepower]] (Two Trident missiles are fired at Minsk)
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