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Buchbeschreibung mass_market. Zustand: new. Reprint. 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 threehundredyear history of peerless courage and independence of spirit Rangers are a uniquely American brand of soldier one foot in the military one in the wildernessand that is what fired Blacks 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 Vietnamand what those years have taught him about himself his country and our futureBorn 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 RangerAs a private first class in the 82d Airborne Division headquarters Black withstood the humiliations of enlisted service in the peacetime brownshoe 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 ChineseIf 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 slaughteredsometimes 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 warweary AmericaWritten 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DADAX0345453263
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