Black colonel robert w (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. According to bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, Col. Robert W. Black is the dean of Ranger history, and Black proves it in this history of the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II.

First Edition. History of the Rangers from their earliest days in the colonial era. Softcovers, First edition. VG.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. While "armies fought great, sweeping battles over vast distances which are well recorded - Antietam, Shiloh, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg - in the seams of the battlefield another, much less known, war raged. Both the Union and the Confederacy employed small forces of bold and highly motivated soldiers for special operations behind enemy lines. Skilled in infiltration,these warriors scouted deep into enemy territory, captured important personnel, disrupted lines of communication and logistics, and sowed confusion and fear. Often wearing the uniform of the enemy, they faced execution as spies if captured. Despite these risks, and in part because of them, these warriors fought and died as American rangers" - and this book tells some of their stories - among them Turner Ashby, Harry Gilmor, Elijah V. White on the Rebel side, and Henry Harrison Young and Sheridan's Scouts, the Swamp Dragons and more on the Yankee side. Photographs. Endnotes, bibliography, index. xiv, 370 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…