Book description
From the Napoleonic Wars to Korea, Bryan Perrett has found a further 13
dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with
unbelievable success. The events take place in Europe, Africa, Asia and
North America; they are linked only by the bravery and devilment which
led military men to risk their lives for a last ditch attempt to advance
their cause. Attending to the important facts and statistics required by
the military historian, the author avoids invention and undue surmise
whilst also avoiding the dry lecturing style found in so many volumes
describing military strategy. The result is an absorbing, exciting and
above all accurate account of astonishing battlefield warfare: narrative
history of the sort at which Bryan Perrett excels. 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
