Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II

by Clay Blair Jr.

Book Overview

Written by the best-selling author and longtime editor of The Saturday Evening Post Clay Blair, this powerful study of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway offers both a detailed account of the legendary general's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385278888
• ISBN13: 9780385278881
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Good salute to the 82nd Airborne

If you want to read a fitting tribute the 82nd and the Officers of it, then here you go. It is a good solid read but like his other Book on US Submarines it concentrates way too much on the Officers Corp. As a former Enlisted Man it would of been nice to hear a little more about the other side of the house.

Objective, rather than subjective history

Mr. Blair once again comes through in his in-depth analysis of the US Army Airborne during the Second World War. Especially illuminating is his exposure of LTC Reuben Tucker as THE outstanding wartime regimental commander of the not only the US Army, but of the entire US military. This book is plain and simply a good read. I recommend it to anyone who is serious about military history and battle command.