Gordon L Rottman served for 26 years in the US Army in Special Forces, airborne infantry, long-range reconnaissance patrol, and military intelligence assignments in the Regular Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve. He has worked as a Special Operations Forces scenario writer for 14 years at the Army' s Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana where he developed training exercises for Special Forces. Gordon began writing military history books in 1984 and is currently a full-time author. He has written 50 books for Osprey.He is married with four children and lives in Cypress, Texas.
Series
Books
Vietnam War US & Allied Combat Equipments
2017
US Patrol Torpedo Boats
World War II
2008
World War II Allied Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps
2006
World War II US Armored Infantry Tactics
2009
The Bazooka
2012
US Marine Corps Pacific Theater of Operations
1941-43
2004
World War II Infantry Anti-Tank Tactics
2005
Japanese Pacific Island Defenses 1941-45
2003
Vietnam Airmobile Warfare Tactics
2007
US World War II Parachute Infantry Regiments
2014
Armies of the Gulf War
1993
The Rocket Propelled Grenade
2006
Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels and Fortifications of the Vietnam War
2006
The Big Book of Gun Trivia
Everything you want to know, don't want to know, and don't know you need to know
2013
World War II Airborne Warfare Tactics
2006
Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1942-2002
2005
M3 Medium Tank vs Panzer III
Kasserine Pass 1943
2008
US Army Special Forces
1952-84
1985
US Army Rangers & LRRP Units 1942-1987
1987
US 10th Mountain Division in World War II
2012
US Army Long-Range Patrol Scout in Vietnam 1965-71
2008
German Combat Equipment 1939-45 (Men at Arms Series, 234)
1991
SNAFU Situation Normal All F***ed Up
Sailor, Airman, and Soldier Slang of World War II
2013
US Army Paratrooper in the Pacific Theater 1943-45
2012
Soviet Field Fortifications 1941-45
2007
World War II Glider Assault Tactics
2014
Soviet Rifleman 1941-45
2007
US MACV-SOG Reconnaissance Team in Vietnam
2011
World War II Combat Reconnaissance Tactics
2007
German Field Fortifications 1939-45
2004
US Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
2008
US Army Airborne 1940-90
1990
Special Forces Camps in Vietnam 1961-70
2005
Vietnam Airborne
1990
US Marine Corps 1941-1945
1995
Panama 1989-90
1991
World War II Infantry Assault Tactics
2008
US Army Infantryman in Vietnam 1965-73
2005
Carlson's Marine Raiders - Makin Island 1942
2014
Under Western Stars
2020
World War II US Cavalry Units
Pacific Theater
2009
US World War II and Korean War Field Fortifications 1941–53
2005
The Cabanatuan Prison Raid
The Philippines 1945
2009
Okinawa 1945
The Last Battle
2002
The US Army in the Vietnam War 1965-73
2008
World War II US Cavalry Groups
European Theater
2012
Army of the Republic of Vietnam 1955-75
2010
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
Soldier Slang of World War II
2007
U.S. Army Combat Equipments 1910-1988
1989
German Pionier 1939-45
Combat Engineer of the Wehrmacht
2010
World War II Japanese Tank Tactics
2008
Green Beret in Vietnam
1957-73
2002
U.S. Marine vs. Japanese Infantryman
Guadalcanal 1942-43
2014
World War II Infantry Fire Support Tactics
2016
Vietnam Infantry Tactics
2011
The AK-47
Kalashnikov-series assault rifles
2011
The Great Locomotive Chase
The Andrews Raid 1862
2009
The M16
2011
The Hardest Ride
2013
Guam 1941 & 1944
Loss and Reconquest
2004
Warsaw Pact Ground Forces
1987
Japanese Infantryman 1937-45
Sword of the Empire
2005
US World War II Amphibious Tactics
Mediterranean & European Theaters
2006
Khe Sanh 1967-68
Marines battle for Vietnam's vital hilltop base
2005
US Combat Engineer 1941-45
2006
Inch'on 1950
The last great amphibious assault
2006
Ride Harder
2017
Browning .50-Caliber Machine Guns
2006
The Marshall Islands 1944
Operation Flintlock, the Capture of Kwajalein and Eniwetok
2004
Inside the US Army
1988
World War II River Assault Tactics
2013
The Berlin Wall and the Intra-German Border 1961-89
2008
Marta's Ride
2017
Tears of the River
2014
US World War II Amphibious Tactics
Army & Marine Corps, Pacific Theater
2004
Tunnel Rat in Vietnam
2012
