Stealth Patrol: The Making of a Vietnam Ranger

by John P. Brackin and Bill Shanahan

Book Overview

Bill Shanahan was troubled by his line company duty in Vietnam: whenever his unit went on patrol, the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong could hear them coming. His unit didn't have a chance against an enemy that quietly emerged from the jungle like ghosts-and just as quickly disappeared. Shanahan wanted a better way to fight... and to stay alive. And so, just four months after he arrived in Vietnam in 1968, he joined the LRPs (Long Range Patrol).The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306812738
• ISBN13: 9780306812736
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The First Fiasco

The book is a good recollection of how it was. It is very much first person and personal based more or less on what we knew at the time. A good read.