Pretty much all the RAF aircrew I knew had read it.
'Chieftains' is a good read from a BAOR tank crew's perspective (and on kindle now), and of course 'Red Storm Rising'
I recall a briefing in 1989 when we were given a secondary role of Central Front AD. The briefer was keen to point out that things had improved greatly since the days of the WW1 'twenty-minuters', and that we now had a life expectancy of twenty four minutes. We were mightily relieved when the Berlin Wall came down a month later - well, relieved and edgy. I don't think the risk of some kind of Soviet coup/war passed till around 1991.
Winson Green Prison is approximately in the centre of the population of Greater Birmingham. If they had wanted to hit the centre of evil in Birmingham, they would have aimed at Chelmsley Wood not Winson Green, according to my sister who used to live (or rather, exist) in CW.