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Title: Cassell Military Classics: Last Stand!: Famous Battles Against the Odds by Bryan Perrett ISBN: 0-304-35055-9 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: 31 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Last Stand: Bravery is Only Sometimes Enough
Comment: Conventional thinking to explain why certain groups of armed men are willing to fight to the last man and the last bullet usually revolve around the obvious: esprit de corps, Prussian style training and discipline, absolute loyalty to a charismatic commander, bitter hatred of the enemy, extreme altruism--the list goes on and on. What Bryan Perrett adds in LAST STAND to a mixture that rarely contains all the above is the small number of those willing to die for a cause. Surprisingly enough for the non-military historian is his claim that last stands historically did not involve elite units who presumably would be the most likely candidates for self-sacrifice. The case studies represent a sampling of bravery that ranges from the well-known massacres of Custer at the Little Big Horn to further massacres at the Alamo and to unexpected triumphs at Rorke's Drift. Perrett analyzes thirteen battles all of which involved soldiers willing to fight to the death, and in most of them, they did. Perrett's expertise in wartime tactics and his fluid prose style help to explain why some are willing to die for a belief even if most are not.
Rating: 5
Summary: Backs to the Wall!
Comment: In this series of essays about last-ditch resistance on the battlefield, we are taken on a tour of military history from Waterloo to Big Horn to Zululand to Korea. Perrett's crisp style and sound military background combine with his empathy for the men who together squarely and faced, and usually met, death without flinching. With a few exceptions such as Rorke's Drift, most units making an heroic last stand will end up losing. Perrett makes that point that while some last-stands such as Arnhem Bridge, may have had incidental side-benefits (stalling the Germans long enough that other bridges might be held), others like the Foreign Legion at Camerone or the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, serve only as regimental glories. Yet others, like The Alamo or the American defense of Wake Island, featured gallantry that inspired the homefront towards total victory. Superb military history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book, a must have for military amateur historians
Comment: This book is a series of short essays on famous last ditch battles fought through out history from Waterloo in 1815 through Imjin in Korea in 1952. While it does not cover every great last stand, by no means even a large number of them, it is still a very worthwhile book.
It covers about 10 such battles all over the world during this time period, and is written in a very easy to read format. The stories will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time, and you will come away from it with a great deal of knowledge. Many of the stories are complete enough to shed light on a single individual involved, not just the whole unit involved.
If you like the underdog, or a fight against all odds, this book is for you.
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Title: 100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present by Paul K. Davis ISBN: 0195143663 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Battles that Changed History by Fletcher Pratt ISBN: 048641129X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 27 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Cassell Military Classics: Iron Fist: Classic Armoured Warfare by Bryan Perrett ISBN: 0304351288 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Fatal Decisions: Errors and Blunders in World War II by Edmund Blandford ISBN: 0785813667 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Besieged: 100 Great Seiges from Jericho to Sarajevo by Paul K. Davis ISBN: 0195219309 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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