Play it again, SAM!
Germany in the early 1980s. The cold war has reached a new climax. Along a line stretching from the Baltic to the Alps, armies of NATO and the Warsaw pact are staring each other each waiting for the other to make a mistake, the inhibition to strike lower than at any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. One of the potential battlegrounds are the vast plains and gently rolling hills of Northern Germany, with the city of Hamburg with its vast deepwater port beckoning as the main prize. Both sides know this, consequently, in the decades since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, NATO and the Bundeswehr, the Western German Federal Armed Forces, have ringed the city with scores of army barracks, depots, and air bases. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the National Peoples‘ Army of Eastern Germany, together with the Soviet Forces in Germany, had amassed an entire army corps each to push down the Elbe Valley and into the Northern German plains. Both sides were training ...