Overview
* Goes into exceptional detail on the D-Day assault of the gun positions at Pointe du Hoc, including how it almost ended in total failure and lists the names of the Rangers who fought in the 2nd Battalion* Unlike most books on the U.S. Army Rangers, this one also covers the many battles fought by the Rangers after D-Day* Based on original documents and interviews with the surviving veterans by the author With a centuries' old warrior heritage, American Rangers endured the most difficult training that man could devise to overcome the most difficult challenges of the enemy and nature. For more than fourteen months, the volunteers that made up the 2nd Ranger Battalion had been finely honed for combat. Now, on June 6, 1944--D-Day--their battle would begin. The payoff was at hand. As the ramps of the landing craft went down, rockets on the sides of the ship fired ropes and grapnels skyward toward the cliff top. Some ropes fell short, men stepped into water that was over their heads and, loaded with equipment weighing over a hundred pounds, sank like stones. Sound and fury combined with fear and determination. Some men thought of the words they had heard each time they were tempted to complain: ""You volunteered.""
Full Product Details
Author: Robert W. Black
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Imprint: Stackpole Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.047kg
ISBN: 9780811701846
ISBN 10: 0811701840
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 November 2006
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print 
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Table of Contents
Camp Forrest, Tennessee, 1 April-4 September 1943; Rudder; Fort Pierce, Florida: Scouts and Raiders School, 4-15 September 1943; Fort Dix-Camp Ritchie-Camp Shanks-the Ocean Voyage, 16 September-30 November 1943; England, Preparations for Invasion, 1 December 1943-5 June 1944; Normandy, D-Day, 6 June 1944; Invasion Aftermath,7 June-16 August 1944; Brest, France, 17 August-18 September 1944; To the Hurtgen Forest, 19 September-3 November 1944; Castle Hill (Hill 400), 1-10 December 1944; Winter War, 11 December 1944-4 February 1945; The Roer and the Rhine, 5 February-26 March 1945; Gotterdammerung, 27 March to Home.
Reviews
"""A quality work which throws new light on the D-Day landings, very readable and highly recommended."" -- George Murdoch, Armchair Auctions, September 2007."
A quality work which throws new light on the D-Day landings, very readable and highly recommended. -- George Murdoch, Armchair Auctions, September 2007.
Author Information
Col. Robert W. Black, a highly decorated Ranger veteran of Korea and Vietnam, is a member of the Ranger Hall of Fame. He lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Port Charlotte, Florida.
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