Impossible Victories
Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
Published on 30. October 2015
224 pages
978-1-4738-4752-1 (ISBN)
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Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds - victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, via colonial action in two world wars.
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- Front Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. 'That Astonishing Infantry' The Albuera Counter-Attack, 16 May 1811
- 2. Scarlet and Grey The Battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, July 1814
- 3. Mission Impossible The Reliefs of Lucknow, 1857
- 4. The Taking of the Taku Forts, 1859 and 1860
- 5. Dargai, 20 October 1897
- 6. The Storming of San Juan Ridge Cuba, 1 July 1898
- 7. Mounted Action The Charges at Beersheba and Huj, Palestine, 1917
- 8. Leading the Way US Rangers at the Pointe Du Hoe and Omaha Beach, D-Day, 6 June 1944
- 9. Crown of Thorns The Struggle for Hill 112, June/July 1944
- 10. Dak To Ngok Kom Leat and Hill 875, South Vietnam, 1967
- Bibliography
- Index
