Product Description

Success on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against all odds, with victory seemingly snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. In ten episodes, the author revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, where such victories have been achieved.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263620 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

About the Author
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

Customer Reviews

Very well researched
This book describes in considerable detail ten battles (ranging from the Peninsular War of 1811 to Vietnam) where the ultimate victors snatched victory from the jaws of certain defeat.

There is a common theme running through these ten battles and it is very interesting to note that though the methods of carrying war to the enemy change and though the weapons used become more fearsome, what remains unaltered through the ages is human spirit, courage and endeavour. In each of these battles it is only the human side of the conflict that wins the day, not machines nor better and more sophistcated arms, it is guts and determination.

This book is very well researched, as one would expect from such an eminent military historian as Perrett.

It is easy to get bogged down in the disposition and movement of the troops but the same could be said of any military history of calibre.