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Gordon Rottman

Auteur de FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II

158 oeuvres 4,786 utilisateurs 49 critiques 1 Favoris

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Gordon L. Rottman is an independent author

Séries

Œuvres de Gordon Rottman

FUBAR: Soldier Slang of World War II (2007) 154 exemplaires
German Combat Equipments 1939-45 (1991) 82 exemplaires
US Marine Corps 1941-45 (Elite) (1995) 58 exemplaires
Warsaw Pact Ground Forces (1987) 58 exemplaires
Inside The U.S. Army Today (1988) 56 exemplaires
Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1942-2002 (1834) 54 exemplaires
Soviet Rifleman, 1941–45 (2007) 46 exemplaires
Panama 1989-90 (1991) 45 exemplaires
World Special Forces Insignia (1989) 44 exemplaires
The Hardest Ride (2013) 44 exemplaires
The Rocket Propelled Grenade (2010) 43 exemplaires
Green Beret in Vietnam (2002) 41 exemplaires
The M16 (Weapon) (2011) 40 exemplaires
Vietnam Airborne (Elite) (1990) 38 exemplaires
Armies of the Gulf War (Elite) (1993) 37 exemplaires
Viet Cong Fighter (2007) 36 exemplaires
US Army Air Force (2) (Elite) (1994) 33 exemplaires
The Panzerfaust (2014) 32 exemplaires
The Hand Grenade (Weapon) (2015) 31 exemplaires
Vietnam Infantry Tactics (Elite) (2011) 31 exemplaires
Vietnam Gun Trucks (New Vanguard) (2011) 31 exemplaires
US Combat Engineer, 1941–45 (2010) 31 exemplaires
US Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam (2008) 29 exemplaires
The Bazooka (Weapon) (2012) 28 exemplaires
Tunnel Rat in Vietnam (2012) 23 exemplaires
D-Day Beach Assault Troops (Elite) (2017) 20 exemplaires
German Self-propelled Guns (2005) 19 exemplaires
Vietnam Armor in Action (2002) 17 exemplaires
The German invasion of Yugoslavia 1941 (2009) — Auteur — 13 exemplaires
The Fall of Monte Cassino (2007) 11 exemplaires
Waffen-SS in Action (2007) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
Vietnam War Booby Traps (Elite) (2020) 7 exemplaires
Ride Harder (2017) 3 exemplaires
Marta's Ride (2017) 3 exemplaires
US Army Air Force 2 exemplaires
Bazooka : raketgevär 1 exemplaire
Handgranater 1 exemplaire
TĚŽKÉ KULOMETY BROWNING (2010) 1 exemplaire

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Partage des connaissances

Nom légal
Rottman, Gordon L.
Date de naissance
1947-02-24
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
Texas, USA
Professions
military officer
historian
weapons specialist
Organisations
U. S. Army
Osprey Publishing

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Following the adventures of a painfully dimwitted youth's struggle to comprehend being attracted to a mute mexican girl, who inevitably ends up a damsel in distress. I'm not sure if this is for the YA market, being on one hand so inhibited the romance seems written for teens, on the other hand you have women raped and beaten and people killed off in gory ways. I don't know who it's for, but it ain't for me.
 
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A.Godhelm | 1 autre critique | Oct 20, 2023 |
Call this Osprey at its most workmanlike, as Rottman crams a great deal of detail into 64 pages, but there is little narrative to speak of. This is the sort of item that you have handy if you're reading about the Pacific Theatre in World War II and want to have hard information at hand about organization and equipment. A nice touch is that Osprey saw fit to provide seven color plates illustrating typical outfits at different points in the war; one for the Marines caught in the Japanese conquest of the Philippines, and one for the combat debut of each of the six Marine divisions.… (plus d'informations)
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Shrike58 | Jun 2, 2023 |
To many observers in early September 1950, it appeared as though the Korean War was about to end in a victory for North Korean army. In just over two months they had driven both the South Korean forces and their American reinforcements to the southeastern corner of the Korean peninsula. Though the front lines had stabilized into the “Pusan Perimeter,” the rapid advance of the North Korean offensive had convinced many that it was only a matter of time before they would conquer the rest of the country, reuniting the peninsula under Kim Il Sung’s rule.

On September 15, however, American forces seized the port of Inch’on, just outside of Seoul. In a matter of days, the course of the war shifted in favor of the UN coalition aiding South Korea, as the overextended North Korean forces soon fled northward. It was a remarkable turn of fortune, none the less so for the fact that, as Gordon Rottman describes in his short history of the operation, it was an improvised operation involving forces cobbled together from a shrunken military. Yet it was from such unpromising circumstances that one of the most amphibious assaults in military history was launched.

Though Douglas MacArthur is often credited with devising the operation, Rottman explains that it was actually the brainchild of Donald McB. Curtis, a Pentagon staffer who devised the basic concept just days before the war began. Sensing its potential, MacArthur quickly adopted it and pushed it through using sheer force of personality. Hastily assembling units from the scattered parts of the postwar forces, the operation was planned and implemented in just two and a half months – a remarkable feat when compared to the amount of time devoted to planning similar amphibious assaults during the Second World War just five years before.

Rottman writes of the preparations for the landing and the subsequent invasion itself with an ease that reflects his own extensive background as a former solider. While he is far less successful in providing the details of the North Korean forces and their defenses, this is understandable given the continuing inaccessibility of North Korean records and accounts of the event. Less excusable, though, is his slighting of the role played by the Navy in the operation, as their contribution is summarized as that of a shuttle service that also provided some bombardment support. This limits the value of Rottman’s account of the Inch’on operation, reducing it to a somewhat wooden overview of one of the most remarkable military operations ever attempted.
… (plus d'informations)
 
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MacDad | 1 autre critique | Jul 22, 2022 |
As I recall, I acquired this booklet as part of a lot that I purchased on eBay, and was something of an afterthought. Having finally gotten around to reading it, this is up to Rottman's normal excellent standards, and if a collection of makeshift war wagons are not that interesting from a technical basis, the circumstances that brought forth their introduction, and the men who made up their crews do command attention. Of course, when the U.S. military found itself in comparable circumstances in Iraq, with the problem of protecting large supply convoys, any lessons that might have been learned from the Vietnam experience had been forgotten.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Shrike58 | 1 autre critique | May 1, 2022 |

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Œuvres
158
Membres
4,786
Popularité
#5,250
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
49
ISBN
353
Langues
5
Favoris
1

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