Against All Odds
More Dramatic Last Stand Actions
Published on 4. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-85409-451-3 (ISBN)
Description
Describes 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with extraordinary success. The events take place in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America, and are not connected, except by the bravery which led military men to risk their lives to advance their cause.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
30 photographs, 16 maps
Dimensions
Height: 120 mm
Width: 120 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85409-451-3 (9781854094513)
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Against All Odds!
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Person
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