It’s June 1993the Summer of Hate. The Iron Curtain has shattered, the Balkans burn, and now the storm breaks along the Danube. As NATO forces surge into Slovakia, the Soviet Union fights for its very survival. The 101st Airborne Division plunges deep behind enemy lines in a lightning air assaultseizing suburbs, bridges, and high ground in a race against time. Their mission: carve out a foothold on the far bank before the Red Army can react.
Across the river, battered divisions of Soviet reservists, tankers, and Spetsnaz commandos brace for the onslaught. The collapsing communist empire orders the impossible: turn the Danube into a river of blood and hold at any cost. On both sides of the river, pilots, paratroopers, engineers, and infantry fight hour by hour as artillery rains, MiGs scream overhead, and modern mechanized war devolves into close-quarters slaughter.
From landing zones blazing under rocket fire to the shattered streets of Bratislava, heroism, exhaustion, and desperation collide. A handful of men and women will decide whether the West breaks through or the East buys one final reprieve.
Set between Iron Crucible: Steel Rain and Ashen Tomorrow, Bloody Danube focuses on brutal vital slice of the EastWest confrontation. The fate of armies hangs on the courage of the fewand the river runs red as history grinds ceaselessly on.
Genre: Thriller
Across the river, battered divisions of Soviet reservists, tankers, and Spetsnaz commandos brace for the onslaught. The collapsing communist empire orders the impossible: turn the Danube into a river of blood and hold at any cost. On both sides of the river, pilots, paratroopers, engineers, and infantry fight hour by hour as artillery rains, MiGs scream overhead, and modern mechanized war devolves into close-quarters slaughter.
From landing zones blazing under rocket fire to the shattered streets of Bratislava, heroism, exhaustion, and desperation collide. A handful of men and women will decide whether the West breaks through or the East buys one final reprieve.
Set between Iron Crucible: Steel Rain and Ashen Tomorrow, Bloody Danube focuses on brutal vital slice of the EastWest confrontation. The fate of armies hangs on the courage of the fewand the river runs red as history grinds ceaselessly on.
Genre: Thriller
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