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| Title: | Battalion
: The Dramatic Story of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II |
| Author: | Robert W Black |
| ISBN: | 0811701840 : 9780811701846 |
| Illustrations: | 40 b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 354 |
| Weight: | .697 Kg. |
| Published: | Stackpole Books - November 2006 |
| List Price: | 18.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | True stories: Second World War |
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 14 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." Includes many battles fought by the Rangers after D-Day.
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 Hürtgen 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; Götterdämmerung, 27 March to Home.
"A quality work which throws new light on the D-Day landings, very readable and highly recommended." -- George Murdoch, Armchair Auctions, September 2007.
