Blood Trails by Christopher Ronnau - ISBN: 9780891418832
Paperback
For Private First Class Ronnau Vietnam was ‘better than a poke in the face with a sharp stick’. Believing Eisenhower’s domino theory, he volunteered for the Army and off to Vietnam he went, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express travellers cheques.

Blood Trails

The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier in Vietnam

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    15 December 2006

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Summary

For fans of great Vietnam combat memoirs such as Michael Hodgins’ Reluctant Warrior and John Leppelman’s Blood on the Risers.BAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA tr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780891418832
ISBN-10:0891418830
Author:Christopher Ronnau
Publisher:Presidio Press
Imprint:Presidio Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:15 December 2006
Weight:240g
Dimensions:174mm x 106mm
About The Author

Christopher Ronnau

After a medical discharge for wounds received in Vietnam and a lengthy recuperation at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, Christopher Ronnau returned to Southern California. After college and medical school, he worked as an emergency room physician and director in St. Louis, Missouri, for more than twenty years. In 2002 he returned to Long Beach, where he now lives and writes.

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