Last Stand: Famous Battles Against The Odds (Cassell Military Classics) - Softcover

Perrett, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304350559 ISBN 13: 9780304350551

Publisher: Phoenix, 1998

Synopsis

What do soldiers do when all is lost? They keep fighting! In this best-selling anthology, Bryan Perrett provides gripping accounts of close-quarter battles and hard fought victory against all the odds. His journey from Napoleonic Europe through to the Korean War highlights thirteen episodes of incredible bravery and sacrifice in unbelievable actions. The book begins with the gallant fight of Napoleon's Old Guard at Waterloo. It examines the famous actions at the Alamo; against the Zulus at Rorke's Drift; and 'the Bridge Too Far' at Arnhem. The adventure concludes with the desperate last stand of the Gloucesters at Imjin during the Korean War. Last Stand! is the breathtaking story of ultimate sacrifice and glorious victory.

About this title

Book Description:

What do soldiers do when all is lost?

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0304350559
• ISBN 13: 9780304350551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240