Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes

by Bryan Perrett (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $11.94

  This top ten list covers some of the most unlikely, unexpected, improbable, and even impossible military successes of the past 200 years. With accurate detail and adventurous drama, these accounts highlight the Albuera counterattack in the 1811 Peninsular War, and the Hill 875 attack in Vietnam, US Rangers at Omaha Beach, storming San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders, and the volunteer cavalry that bluffed 2,000 Spanish troops. 240 pages, 46 b/w illus., 6 x 9 1/4.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.42

  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.

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.28

  A follow-up title to the author's previous work, Last Stand, At All Costs . This volume describes and recounts various occurrences of the phenomena of impossible victories . Through ten accounts, the reader is taken from the Peninsular War or 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, with colonial action and events from the World Wars also included. Each story is told with great attention to detail and accuracy without disguising the adventure and drama which is naturally present in such victories.