A TRUE RANGER: The Life and Many Wars of Major Robert Rogers - by Gary Stephen Zaboly. Hardbound, 521 pages, 8-1/2" x 12". A hard-hitting and objective biography that emphasizes Roger's military achievements, and doesn't let his personal failings detract from those achievements. Over the course of his colorful career, Rogers was a frontiersman, farmer, trapper, Ranger leader, Indian fighter (and friend), speculator, merchant, London socialite and commandant of the most important fur trading post in the West of the 1760's. It was during the French & Indian War that he set down the Rangers' "Standing Orders" on survival and guerilla warfare which were to prove his lasting legacy and are still used by US special forces today. An accurate account of Rogers' rollercoaster life, without recourse to moral judgment.
