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Violence
A lot
Sustained military combat across multiple theaters; naval and air battles with significant casualties; ground warfare
Language
Some
Moderate adult language; military dialogue throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The strategic and human cost of conventional warfare at massive scale
What this book is about
After a terrorist attack on Soviet oil facilities, the USSR engineers a pretext to invade Western Europe. Tom Clancy's non-Jack Ryan thriller is a massive, meticulously researched simulation of what a conventional NATO-Warsaw Pact war in the 1980s would have looked like—tracking dozens of characters across land, sea, and air battles.
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