Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes - Tapa blanda

This "top ten list" covers some of the most unlikely, unexpected, improbable, and even impossible military successes of the past 200 years. With accurate detail and adventurous drama, these accounts highlight the Albuera counterattack in the 1811 Peninsular War, and the Hill 875 attack in Vietnam, US Rangers at Omaha Beach, storming San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders, and the volunteer cavalry that bluffed 2,000 Spanish troops. 240 pages, 46 b/w illus., 6 x 9 1/4.

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.