Robert Tonsetic

Robert Louis Tonsetic (born Braddock, Pennsylvania December, 1942; died Easton, Maryland April, 2016) was an American military historian.

Tonsetic graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1964. He then served in the US Army for twenty-seven years. He received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, and the Bronze Star for his actions in the Vietnam War.

His notable books include:


 * Days of Valor: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War 
 * 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War 
 * Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam 
 * Special Operations in the American Revolution 
 * Forsaken Warriors: The Story of an American Advisor with the South Vietnamese Rangers and Airborne, 1970-71