At All Costs!
Stories of Impossible Victories
Published on 19. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-304-35054-4 (ISBN)
Description
Eleven stories of bravery and unlikely victories achieved by heavily outnumbered forces. From Minden in 1759 to Goose Green in the Falklands in 1982, the events range from colonial, American Civil War to World War I.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
35 photographs and m
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Weight
199 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-304-35054-4 (9780304350544)
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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