Team Yankee
| Author | Harold Coyle |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre |
War novel Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | Presidio Press |
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Publication date
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August 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 15132325 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.O948 T4 1987 |
Team Yankee is a techno-thriller novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle, then a major in the United States Army, whose subject is the actions of a company-sized armor unit of the United States Army in the World War III scenario as depicted by General Sir John Hackett in his novel, The Third World War: The Untold Story. General Hackett's scenario takes place in 1985; Coyle never specifies the year, but it is assumed to take place in the late 1980s. While Hackett's book emphasizes strategy and world politics, Coyles features the experiences of the tank crews and infantrymen fighting on the front lines.
The novel achieved best-selling status and became a series of comic books, an Origins Award-winning board wargame and later a video game. In 2015, it was adapted as a sister scenario for the Flames of War wargame.
The novel is set in West Germany and East Germany in the months of August and September; the year is unspecified.
Team Yankee ("Y" in the ICAO and NATO phonetic alphabet) is an armor-heavy company-sized unit (a "Team" in Army parlance). There is nothing special about this team; it is an average company-sized American unit in an average battalion of the Regular Army.
Team Yankee is composed of First Platoon (Lieutenant Murray Weiss), Second Platoon (Second Lieutenant McAllister), Mech(anized Infantry) Platoon (Staff Sergeant Polgar), and Third Platoon (Second Lieutenant Gerry Garger). Captain Sean Bannon is company commander; First Lieutenant Robert Uleski is the executive officer; and company first sergeant is First Sergeant Raymond Harrert.
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