AT ALL COSTS! STORIES OF IMPOSSIBLE VICTORIES. by Perrett, Bryan - 1994

London: Brockhampton, 1994. 223 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w plates, maps/battle plans. "The 'at all costs' mission on the battlefield is brought about by the desperate need to attain an objective or maintain an existing position. It provides examples of human bravery and determination above and beyond the call of normal duty - some would say sanity. Were these events related in this book woven into a work of fiction, they could well be edited out on the grounds of their being beyond belief - and yet this book is fact, not fiction!" Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgements; The Drums of Minden; Valleys of Death (Balaclava); The Walls of Delhi; For Want of a Nail (Little Round Top); Von Bredow's Death Ride and The Prussian Guard at St-Privat; March into Infinity (The Desert Column, Gordon Relief Expedition); The Arras Counter-Attack; The Taking of Longstop; Across the Waal (Nijmegen Bridges); Jump on Corregidor; Goose Green; Postscript; Select Bibliography; Index. Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.