Ronald Winter

Ronald Winter is a writer, political strategist, media relations specialist and public speaker who gave up an academic scholarship at SUNY Albany in 1966 to join the Marines and fight in Vietnam. His services earned him numerous decorations including fifteen Air Medals, Combat Aircrew Wings, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

After returning to college and earning undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and English Literature he enjoyed a two-decade journalism career that included stints as investigative reporter, supervising editor, and columnist. Winter received several prestigious awards and a Pulitzer nomination.

He has been published in HUMAN EVENTS; THE JUSTICE JOURNAL; THE HARTFORD COURANT; THE VVA VETERAN; TAE KWON DO TIMES; CORRECTIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AND MANAGEMENT; and many other publications. He is an adjunct professor of communications at the University of Hartford where he teaches public speaking, and is the writer-in-residence for the Naugatuck School system in New Haven County, Connecticut.

Winter writes a regular blog column Winter’s Soldier Story on the military and politics, which appears on his website www.RonaldWinterbooks.com.

MASTERS OF THE ART is a bare-knuckles tribute to the Marines who fought in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a helicopter crewman who flew 300 missions as a door gunner. It is a frank and accurate look at U.S. Marine operations in northern I Corps in 1968, at such battle sites as Khe Sanh, the Demilitarized Zone, and the A Shau Valley. MASTERS OF THE ART is true to the Marine tradition of Semper Fidelis—always faithful.