Likewise when the Russians overran Berlin they sent a signal to the Allies what their land armies could accomplish. In 1945 US and UK bombers sent a signal to the advancing Russians at Dresden to beware of what the Allies could do. When Nazi Germany was destroyed, it was evident that Russian tank armies had become supreme in Europe, but only in counterpart to US air power. This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed.įor 45 years after World War II, East and West stood on the brink of war.
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