Cassell Military Classics: Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes - Softcover

Perrett, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304354589 ISBN 13: 9780304354580

Publisher: UNKNO, 2000

Synopsis

Some of the most unlikely, unexpected, improbable, and even impossible military successes of the past 200 years, covered in a "top ten" list! With accurate detail and adventurous drama, these accounts highlight the Albuera counterattack in the 1811 Peninsular War; the Battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane in 1814; the Charges at Beersheba and Huj in Palestine (1917); the Rough Riders storming San Juan Hill; US Rangers at Omaha Beach; and the Hill 875 attack in Vietnam.

About this title

About the Author:

Bryan Perrett left the army as a successful career officer to take up the pen as a full-time writer. Able to write to any brief (he was captioning picture-strips for schoolgirl comics at one point), he found his metier as a military historian and writer of good, fast, episodic, narrative popular histories. His many books, all founded on meticulous research from primary sources, find a wide popular readership. He is the bestselling author in the bestselling Cassell Military Classics series

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0304354589
• ISBN 13: 9780304354580
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224