Product Description
Describes 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with extraordinary success. The events take place in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America, and are not connected, except by the bravery which led military men to risk their lives to advance their cause.
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 C








