Charlie Rangers

by Don Ericson, John L. Rotundo, John L. Rotundo, Don Ericson

Book Overview

They were the biggest Ranger company in Vietnam, and the best. For eighteen months, John L. Rotundo and Don Ericson braved the test of war at its most bloody and most raw, specializing in ambushing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804102880
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.9" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

A great book about commandos hunter-killer teams behind enemy lines.

This book is a page turner describing the experience of the two authors' tour in Vietnam as members of a Rangers company. It's full of detailed missions where they were inserted right behind enemy lines inside the Vietnamese jungle, sometimes as members and other times as leaders of small 6 persons hunter-killer teams that specialized in ambushing and killing the North Vietnamese guerrillas. This book is almost up there with others great LRPs(long range patrol) books like "SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam", I totally recommend it if you like non-fiction special forces books.

Great Ranger Book

This is the best of the books I have read about the LRP rangers. You feel like you actually know the them, and feel for them when one of them dies. It gives a very real look at not only what happens on the battlefield, but also what goes on at their base camp. All the drugs, sex, and police calls you can handle. Of the two I found the John L. Rotundo portion to be the most interesting, but Ericson still does a fantastic job. Whether they are hiding from MP's in the local bar or out in the field ambushing a group of half-stepping NVA, it's exciting throughout. The only complaint I can say I have about this book is that it gets mildly confusing. They switch back in forth telling their own stories in no particular order, which, as you might think, gets annoying. But this is not enough to hamper enjoyment of this great book. Recommended to anyone who likes war stories or the LRP books.

The best of the toughest, and bravest came together as one

This book was one of the best books on 75th rangers in vietnam. The deadly 6 man hunter killer teams that stalked the VC and NVA for days at a time with no words spoken is facinateing. They are the best at what they did..killing and they were the best in the business. This book is the best. Read it and you will feel difrent about what you thought you were about to read.

the real war in Vietnam as it was lived

This books describes in detail the pitfalls of war along with some of the humor our service men must incure. At times, this book brings tears to the eyes and there are times when they pull their outlandish pranks. This true story of Vietnam should me mandatory reading for all military personnel, past and present and not be neglected by individuals who have not served their country.

FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF UNCONVENTIONAL WAR.

HAVING SERVED WITH 4TH PLATOON AS A TEAMLEADER, THE AUTHORS TELL IT LIKE IT WAS. CHARLIE COMPANY WAS THE BEST AT HUNTER-KILLER MISSIONS. OFTEN OPCON TO SPECIAL FORCES AND OTHER UNITS, OUR TEAMS WERE DEADLY EFFECTIVE. ROTUNDO AND ERICSON DELIVER YOU BACK TO THAT TIME, A TIME WHEN COURAGE WAS COMMON TO EACH MISSION.