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Title: The Ghosts of the Highlands by Kregg P. Jorgenson ISBN: 0-8041-1597-4 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 December, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very well written
Comment: In Dec 1966, I was privileged to have been picked by the Div G2 to assist Capt James as the team leader for an experimental team which if successful would evolve into the development of more teams. In 1966, Capt James and I were the only two individuals in the Cav's Lrrps. As I read this book, I was amazed at how the author put this all together and as I continued to read, I wondered where I had been during all that time when I and James were the first two soldiers in the Lrrps. This book describes a unit that I did not serve with nor did I have anything to do with yet my name is mentioned in the book. If this is the unit I helped James form, then this book is a novel and should not be considered a nonfiction. I would like to however, compliment the authors writing abilities.
Rating: 3
Summary: My Take on The Ghosts of the Highlands
Comment: I should start by saying that I have read the previous reviews of Jorgenson's "Ghosts of the Highlands" and also noted the ratings given the book. I should also say that I have had a difficult time with this book. I have not been able to make a connection with the characters and/or the subject matter. "Ghosts" is an odd mixture of non-fictional reporting (how James built the LRRP), fictional representation of 'some' characters and events (eg., the dog-robbers), and an assembly of oddities like the brief chapter on the existence of flying monkeys in Nam (in this respect the book reminds me of the content of Melville's Moby Dick with the history and details of whaling). I do not doubt the authenticity of the content or of the real, as versus fictional, characters. Jorgenson was unable to make me see them and to understand them as I would want to. However, perhaps Jorgenson did achieve his purpose, since "Ghosts" is a history of the 1st Cav LRRPs in Vietnam. The operable word there is "history," and that is what we have in "Ghosts." Although I have had a difficult time with this book, I am very pleased to have read it, and I have read from Jorgenson, Chambers, Nicholson, Johnson, Cornett, Linderer, Plaster, and Hackworth. You would do well to read it also.
Rating: 1
Summary: Making believe
Comment: Now, who in their right mind would belive some of these stories. For instance, the author writes that a team is told to get out of an AO (area of operation) in the middle of the night because a B-52 strike was coming in. DAH!!!! No can do, GI. Why'd this author quit when he heard about a team getting wiped out? Why'd he quite when the helicopter he was in got fired at? Quiters never win in the long run. They only quit.
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Title: Gone Native : An NCO's Story by ALAN CORNETT ISBN: 0804116377 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Death in the a Shau Valley : L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970 by Larry Chambers ISBN: 0804115753 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: 15 Months In Sog: A Warrior's Tour by Thom Nicholson ISBN: 0804118728 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam by John L. Plaster ISBN: 0451195086 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: War Paint by Bill Goshen ISBN: 0345444914 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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