A Ranger Born
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A Ranger Born
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Author : Robert W. Black
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2007-12-18
A Ranger Born written by Robert W. Black and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Even as a boy growing up amid the green hills of rural Pennsylvania, Robert W. Black knew he was destined to become a Ranger. With their three-hundred-year history of peerless courage and independence of spirit, Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier, one foot in the military, one in the wilderness—and that is what fired Black’s imagination. In this searing, inspiring memoir, Black recounts how he devoted himself, body and soul, to his proud service as an elite U. S. Army Ranger in Korea and Vietnam—and what those years have taught him about himself, his country, and our future. Born at the start of the Great Depression, Black grew up on a farm at a time of great hardship but also tremendous national determination. He was a kid who toughened up fast, who learned the hard way to rely on his strength and his wits, who saw the country go to war with Germany and Japan and wept because he was too young to serve. As soon as the army would take him, Black enlisted. And as soon as he could muscle his way in, he became a Ranger. As a private first class in the 82d Airborne Division headquarters, Black withstood the humiliations of enlisted service in the peacetime brown-shoe army. When the Korean War began, he volunteered and trained to be an Airborne Ranger. In Korea, this young warrior, his mind and body bursting with the lusts of adolescence, grew up fast, literally in the line of fire. In clean, vivid prose, Black describes the hell of giving his all for a country that lacked the political resolve to give its all to a war against the North Koreans and the Chinese. If Korea was frustrating, Vietnam was maddening. The heart of this book is devoted to the years of action that Black saw in Long An Province starting in 1967. Black writes of the perplexity of collaborating with South Vietnamese officers whose culture and motives he never fully understood; he conjures up the sudden shock of the Tet Offensive and the daily horror of seeing fellow soldiers and innocent civilians slaughtered—sometimes by stray bullets, often by carelessness or treachery. Vietnam challenged everything Black had come to believe in and left him totally unprepared for the hostility he would face when he returned to a war-weary America. Written with extraordinary candor and passion, A Ranger Born is the memoir of a man who dedicated the best of his life to everything that is great and enduring about America. At once intimate in its revelations and universal in its themes, it is a book with profound relevance to our own troubled time in history.
Rangers In World War Ii
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Author : Robert W. Black
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 2010-11-17
Rangers In World War Ii written by Robert W. Black and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-17 with History categories.
From the deadly shores of North Africa to the invasion of Sicily to the fierce jungle hell of the Pacific, the contribution of the World War II Ranger Battalions far outweighed their numbers. They were ordinary men on an extraordinary mission, experiencing the full measure of the fear, exhaustion, and heroism of combat in nearly every major invasion of the war. Whether spearheading a landing force or scouting deep behind enemy lines, these highly motivated, highly trained volunteers led the way for other soldiers -- they were Rangers. With first-person interviews, in-depth research, and a complete appendix naming every Ranger known to have served, author Robert Black, a Ranger himself, has made the battles of WWII come to life through the struggles of the men who fought to win the greatest war the world has ever seen.
Shadowwood Chronicles
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Author : Michael Pearson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-08-14
Shadowwood Chronicles written by Michael Pearson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-14 with categories.
An half-elf, unaccepted and a loner wishes to one day become a ranger, a man of the wilds. After his mother is murdered and he is befriended by dwarves, he is tossed into the midst of a civil war and finds himself at the center of a prophecy that could cause the salvation or downfall of the dwarven race.
The Ranger Force
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Author : Robert W. Black
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08
The Ranger Force written by Robert W. Black and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
In this action-packed account, Robert W. Black draws on decades of original research to reconstruct the bloody combat history of Darby's Rangers while also capturing the colorful personalities that gave the Ranger Force its fighting spirit: gritty, battle-hardened, and uniquely American. This is a rousing story of men at war.
Six Years With The Texas Rangers
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Author : James B. Gillett
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-22
Six Years With The Texas Rangers written by James B. Gillett and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-22 with History categories.
Six years with the Texas Rangers is a memoir of James B. Gillett, a lawman of the Old West, mostly well known due to his service as a Texas Ranger, and as a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. The author brings many authentic, exciting stories from his career including famous capture of the Baca brothers and battles with Apaches.
Guardians Of The Yosemite
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Author : John W. Bingaman
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-01
Guardians Of The Yosemite written by John W. Bingaman and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with Nature categories.
In Guardians of the Yosemite: A Story of the First Rangers, which was first published in 1961, John W. Bingaman provides the reader with a fascinating account of the early days of park rangers, who took charge just as the U.S. Army withdrew from Yosemite. As Dr. Carl Parcher Russell puts it so succinctly, “the precedents and practices established by [the park ranger] were all-important in shaping the protection principles which characterize the present-day Ranger Department.” In the author’s own words, “the purpose in writing this book is to leave permanent records of the First Rangers who contributed so much during their long years of service, and to bridge the gap from the military to the civilian protection and administration of Yosemite National Park. “During the years of my service in Yosemite, from 1918 to 1956, I found there was very little information on the lives and activities of the First Rangers. Some of these men were still in service when I became a Ranger. However, many had died and their records were few and scattered. “In the old days, one would hear the remark, ‘It is a privilege to work for the Park Service.’ It was a privilege for me to serve thirty-eight years in the Yosemite Ranger Service, to be associated with the many fine Park people and the guardians and administrators of the National Park Service whose principal purpose was to serve loyally the cause of the parks.”
Dan Mesa Arizona Ranger
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Author : Dan Sears
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Dan Mesa Arizona Ranger written by Dan Sears and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with Fiction categories.
Dan Mesa knows men like him are a vanishing breed. Once upon a time, he was a rodeo cowboy. He served in Viet Nam and the first Gulf War. He believes a man should stand up for himself and what he believes in, which is why hes good at teaching high school. In the classroom, Dan expects nothing less than respect, and he will not back down. Just like the time he ran across a bank robbery In his Arizona hometown, Dan witnesses a ranger get shot in the shoulder by one of the robbers fleeing the scene and he immediately runs to the aid of the fallen officer. Who knew just a few steps could change a mans life forever? The Arizona ranger deputizes Dan and tells him to prevent the criminals escape. Having been in combat before, Dan doesnt hesitate, and thirty minutes later, hes a true Wild West hero. Turning in his teaching boots, Dan becomes an official member of the Arizona Rangers, where he can expect action, adventure, and some serious danger. The days of Wyatt Earp may be over, but that doesnt mean all the bad cowboys are gone. Dan is ready to track them down and face them, head-to-head. A teacher becomes a law man, and it only took a couple heroic steps to change the history of the Grand Canyon State forever.
The Texas Rangers In Transition
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Author : Charles H. Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-04-25
The Texas Rangers In Transition written by Charles H. Harris and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with History categories.
Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.
Texas Lawmen 1835 1899
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Author : Clifford R. Caldwell
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2011-02-18
Texas Lawmen 1835 1899 written by Clifford R. Caldwell and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-18 with True Crime categories.
The tally of Texas lawmen killed during the state’s first sixty-five years of organized law enforcement is truly staggering. From Texas Rangers the likes of Silas Mercer Parker Jr., gunned down at Parker’s Fort in 1836, to Denton County sheriff ’s deputy Floyd Coberly, murdered by an inmate in 1897 after ten days on the job, this collection accounts for all of those unsung heroes. Not merely an attempt to retell a dozen popular peace officer legends, Texas Lawmen, 1835–1899 represents thousands of hours of research conducted over more than a decade. Ron DeLord and Cliff Caldwell have carefully assembled a unique and engaging chronicle of Texas history.
Rangers In Korea
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Author : Robert W. Black
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2002-03-26
Rangers In Korea written by Robert W. Black and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-26 with Fiction categories.
The U.S. Army Rangers have fought in every war the U.S. has waged from Roger's Rangers in 1756 to the LRRPs of Vietnam. During the Korean War, the Rangers succeeded in making the first combat jump in Ranger history, destroying enemy headquarters, and inflicting the first defeat on Communist Chinese forces. This is their story.