What I’m currently reading: TANK: Southern Thunder, by Michael Holding. It’s a military fiction piece (specifically a tank book) about an Australian M1 Abrams in Ukraine.
It’s a pretty good action tale, if a bit too strident.
Lots of metaphors (direct, simple, implied, explicit, extended), similes and other descriptors. It gets distracting after a while, but I’m kind of a nerd for figurative language, so it doesn’t bother me as much as some (and probably much less than others).
It’s interesting to read some of the differences between how American writers refer to American tanks and how an Aussie writer talks about Australian tanks.
You can find it on Amazon. In fact, this is the description from Amazon (cue dramatic movie trailer music):
Tank: Southern Thunder
In the frozen fields of Eastern Ukraine, the war has entered a new era—where steel meets ingenuity, and courage shapes the battlefield. When a shipment of Australian M1A1 Abrams tanks arrives, they are more than machines: they are instruments of survival, forged into a lethal hybrid by the minds of Ukrainian soldiers and the relentless engineer Sarah Miller.
Captain Yurii Boyko and his crew of misfits take the “Southern Cross” into impossible battles, facing waves of Russian armor, swarms of drones, and a battlefield that bends physics and fate alike. With tethered drones, reactive armor, and sheer grit, they turn the tide, redefining what it means to fight in the age of electronic warfare.
From the bridge at the Vovcha River to the railheads of Pokrovsk, and the snow-swept steppe of Avdiivka, the story of the “Auss-Uke” tanks is a tale of bravery, innovation, and the unyielding spirit of those who refuse to surrender.
Southern Thunder is the electrifying chronicle of men, women, and machines standing together against impossible odds—an epic of modern armored warfare and human courage.
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