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Charge to Battle

Nick Ryan's World War 3 Military Fiction Technothrillers, Book standalone

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Charge to Battle

By: Nick Ryan
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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As Russian troops pour into northern Poland, an elite Platoon of American scouts in Stryker reconnaissance vehicles faces a dangerous assignment: they must clear the route ahead for a US Cavalry column preparing to counter attack the flank of the enemy spearhead before it reaches Warsaw.

But the scouts' difficult mission is made even more complicated when a Company of Polish militia are added to the counter attacking force, and a vital bridge is found to be defended by the enemy. Faced with an impossible battle to win the bridge, and the challenge of unreliable Polish allies, the Cavalry scouts must find a way to fight through a dug-in Russian force that is determined to hold the vital crossing at all costs.

©2022 Nicholas Ryan (P)2022 Podium Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Military Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense War & Military Technology War Cavalry Russia Military Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Nick Ryan knows his craft, and his topic. His World War III stories are tightly written, fast-moving, with great characters." - Larry Bond, co-author of Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising and New York Times bestselling author of Red Phoenix
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Charge to Battle, along with the other books in the series so far, provides an insight into the events of a near present day commencement of World War 3 at a smaller than platoon size level. There is your protagonist and often hero (sometimes anti-hero), the enemy, supporting allies and an antagonist amongst this last group. The only fault I have with the book (more so the series) is the formula is the same throughout. It does not vary an inch and you will straight away know who the "bad person" is. And whilst there is always levels of ineptitude in the military, the proliferation of such characters in this series is...alarming. All of the main characters also seem very much the same, stern, gruff, all with a bit of attitude or a chip on their shoulder.

Performance was good, better than some others I've heard recently. Only issues I have are some of the occasional misreading of a word or pronunciation of some of the technical aspects.

And my final gripe is once again writers, when describing radio calls, using "repeat" as opposed to the more accurate "say again".

A very focused series of vignettes

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