At All Costs!: Stories of Impossible Victories - Hardcover

Perrett, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854091573 ISBN 13: 9781854091574

Publisher: Arms & Armour, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of true short stories relates the obstacles, challenges, circumstances, and efforts involved in some of history's most impossible victories

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 C

From Booklist:

Prolific and popular British military historian Perrett adds to his credits a volume appealing to the general military buff. It covers 11 particularly desperate actions (not necessarily entire battles) in which decisive results were gained against impossible odds, frequently at heavy cost. Some are well known--the struggle for Little Round Top at Gettysburg in 1863, for instance, and the battle of Balaclava, which included but was not limited to the charge of the Light Brigade. Others are drawn from conflicts ranging chronologically from 1759 (the battle of Minden) to 1982 (the battle for Goose Green in the Falklands). Perrett has a real knack for clearly combining presentations of strategy, tactics, weaponry, and psychology that makes this, like most of his previous books, highly accessible. Strongly recommended. Roland Green

About this edition

• Publisher: Arms & Armour
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1854091573
• ISBN 13: 9781854091574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223