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Diary of an Airborne Ranger : A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone
Diary of an Airborne Ranger A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone Author:Frank Johnson Two cassettes, 2 hrs. — Read by Dan Leslie — DIARY OF AN AIRBORNE RANGER: A LRRP'S YEAR IN THE COMBAT ZONE is unique in the literature of the Army in Vietnam. For security reasons, U.S. soldiers arriving in Vietnam were forbidden to keep diaries, but Frank Johnson decided that the events occuring around him deserved to be recorded for posterity. — ... more »Written by a 19-year-old American soldier during his eventful year in combat, his journal unveils the thoughts, emotions, and actions of a young warrior in all their innocence and honesty. It is a rare look at a soldier's perspective of military life as it unfolds around him in the combat zone. During his year of combat, he wrote vividly about the mundane and the traumatic events he lived and observed, sending each page home to his mother as he completed it. Now, after thirty years in a shoebox, DIARY OF AN AIRBORNE RANGER has been resurrected for all to share. It is perhaps the most accurate story of Lurps at war yet to appear in print.« less