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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 IIIscenario 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.