Nick Ryan's The Killing Ground: A Techno-Thriller Action Event Set During World War 3

Jeff B.: Felt part of the scene. Characters seemed real and believable. Will look forward to reading the next book from him.

United States on Sep 09, 2023

Kindle Customer: Change the country from Poland to Ukraine and you can visualize what Russia is trying to accomplish. The main difference is that Ukraine is holding against overwhelming odds and is actually taking ground back, whereas in this story Poland is lost.

United States on Aug 25, 2023

salligator: This time the Russians take all of Poland and cause a dunkirk disaster in Gdańsk. There is hope, although only a little for the allied survivors.

United States on Jul 29, 2023

Kindle Customer: Just your average war story, very simple, used far to many names of weapons and vehicles when there was no neec

United States on May 23, 2023

Henrik: I find it hard to match the overwhelming performance of the Russian Army, especially their overhyped VDV, with their performance in Ukraine. Just about the only thing that fit was the blatant war crimes by the Russians.
The author has a good grasp of modern weapons technology, but there is a blatant overuse of emotionally manipulative adjectives to their effects.
Explosion aren‘t "cruel". Muzzle flashes aren‘t "wicked". We read stuff like this across all of his novels, repeated again and again, and it is getting old.
As a former naval officer, I find the last part of the book laughable. When there are numerous NATO destroyers present, there is also numerous long-range radars and long-range surface-to-air missiles present. The MiG-29s and Su-25‘s would not even have reached the harbor, let alone have been able to bomb it.
The warships would also have been able to provide naval gun fire support.

FWIW, I - as a German, mind - also dislike the depiction of the Polish Army as a bunch of frightened amateurs in need of direction from Americans. There are few nations the Poles hate more than the Russians, and they would have fought tooth and nail against the...

Germany on Dec 27, 2022

Steel Dragon: I like this guys books. Most are just abought so,diers. Human enough to believe. But brave enough not to be over done. Another good solid read by this guy. I enjoy his books cause the is no politicking in them. Just a hood solid war storiesin it.

Canada on Mar 09, 2022

roguetrooper: One of the best military action books I have ever read more action and inspiring leadership in the middle of a military disaster that may be so realistic you can feel the screams of the dying. Very well written storyline and plot

United Kingdom on Feb 14, 2022

mjk76: This is been one of the best military fiction series I've ever read. All four books are excellent, similar in many ways, but each a standalone book in their own right. I liked "The Killing Ground", because it seemed to be believable. The book doesn't ask much in the way of voluntary suspension of belief.

The Russians are obviously the bad guys and the Poles, British, and Americans are the good guys. You get to know the American and British characters, not much on the Polish, nothing on the Russians. You don't care about the characters in the long-term sense that is what happens after this book, but you do care about them during the book. As various figures are killed off you find yourself hoping that your favorites will survive.
One thing that was interesting, was that the allies were on the receiving end of air power, rather than on the giving side. The Russians seem to have air superiority and the allies would suffer from helicopter and combat air support attacks. I was kind of surprised that allied air power played little to no active role in the story. This is actually another good thing about the story, we get used to believe being that we will own the air, we get...

United States on Oct 22, 2021

Chris Hardy: Solid military fiction. Cliched, but enjoyable and readable nonetheless. Russians could do with a bit more character than waves of bullet fodder.

United Kingdom on Oct 12, 2021

L. Wyatt: Brutal depiction of ww3, cliched as the Americans are seen as heroes and stoic. While the Russians are portrayed as heartless, savage and brutal rapists. Looking back at WW2 accounts the Russian frontline troops were disciplined and it was the following occupation troops who were the types to rape etc. Probably the same for all armies. Putting that aside, these are addictive reads and well written. Wonder when Mr Ryan will move in the Asian theatre of his timeline?

United Kingdom on Oct 10, 2021