 Название: Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
Автор: Bryan Perrett
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2015
Страниц: 224
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, pdf (conv)
Размер: 10.5 MB
Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected maneuver, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, via colonial action in two world wars.
...an excellent book, informative, fascinating in detail, and above all an easy and enjoyable read – The Royal Tank Regiment Journal
Contents:
Introduction
1. ‘That Astonishing Infantry’
The Albuera Counter-Attack, 16 May 1811
2. Scarlet and Grey
The Battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane, July 1814
3. Mission Impossible
The Reliefs of Lucknow, 1857
4. The Taking of the Taku Forts, 1859 and 1860
5. Dargai, 20 October 1897
6. The Storming of San Juan Ridge,
Cuba, 1 July 1898
7. Mounted Action
The Charges at Beersheba and Huj, Palestine, 1917
8. Leading the Way
US Rangers at the Pointe du Hoe and Omaha Beach,
D-Day, 6 June 1944
9. Crown of Thorns
The Struggle for Hill 112, June/July 1944
10. Dak To
Ngok Kom Leat and Hill 875 – South Vietnam, 1967
Bibliography
Index
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