HEROES OF THE HOUR - BRIEF MOMENTS OF MILITARY GLORY - BY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Heroes of the Hour - Brief moments of military glory - by Brian Perett. Hard cover with dust cover, 224 pages. Mint condition. 13 heroes - forgotten by time. These men changed the course of history with their valor and larger-than-life actions, yet few  today remember their triumphs. Some were honorable, others not, but their contemporaries regarded them with pride. Most were  professional soldiers, like Lieutenant Walter Hamilton, who fought the Kabul mob to the death and took 600 of the enemy with  him. Another, Major General Lew Wallace, though primarily a lawyer and politician, commanded a division at the Battle of  Shiloh; today most people know him as the author of Ben Hur. Written by a best-selling author of military history, every true  story has as much excitement and wartime thrills as any work of fiction.