Ranger: Behind Enemy Lines in Vietnam (Military Illustrated) - Hardcover

Ron Field

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1903040043 ISBN 13: 9781903040041

Publisher: Military Illustrated Pub, 2000

Synopsis

The Vietnam War saw the revival of a great military tradition - the Ranger. After World War II there was a Ranger training program, but actual units were usually not deployed. The fluid battlefield in Vietnam created the need for small units to screen American divisions with long-range reconnaissance and ambush tactics. Known initially as "LRRPs" (Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrols) these elite units were eventually centralized and given the revived title of "Rangers."

Ron Field’s detailed text traces the American Ranger tradition back to the days of the French and Indian Wars and Rogers’ Rangers. Over 100 illustrations, many in color, show the evolution of Ranger uniforms, weapons and tactics from colonial times through World War II and Vietnam to today’s 75th Airborne Rangers. Of particular interest is a full-page color painting showing the duties of each man during a classic Ranger operation.

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About the Author

Ron Field was born in Hertford, England in 1943 and was educated in Cheltenham, where he gained a Bachelor of Education (Hons) degree. He was Head of History at The Cotswold School at Bourton-on-the-Water until his retirement in 2007. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1982, he taught History at Piedmont High School in California from 1982-83. He was associate editor of the Confederate Historical Society of Great Britain from 1983 through 1992, and was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, based in Washington, D.C., in 2005. In 2010 he was awarded a Research Fellowship at the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, The John Hay Library, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also a contributing editor of Military Images, a magazine devoted to the photographic history of the U.S. soldier and sailor in the 19th century. A prolific author, Ron is an internationally acknowledged expert on U.S. military history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Military Illustrated Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903040043
• ISBN 13: 9781903040041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144