Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes (Cmp) - Softcover

Perrett, Bryan

 
9780304354580: Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes (Cmp)

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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.

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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

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