Book description
Few people today experience a live war situation; even professional
soldiers can serve their career without going to war. Yet the question
is often asked, what is it like? How do combatants cope with the danger?
How does a battle look to the ordinary soldier?
In a unique mix of dialogue, reportage and objective historical
analysis - "faction" - Bryan Perrett brings the reality of war
to the reader in a direct, no-holds-barred, exciting narrative. The
fictional soldiers in this book, based on recorded accounts, are at the
very heart of the action. From Mons in 1918, through the First and
Second World Wars to Malaya in 1956, Vietnam in 1968 and Kuwait in 1991.
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
