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Bryan Perrett
Bryan Perrett (born 1934) is a British military historian, writer and journalist. He has published over seventy books on military topics, ranging from surveys of important battles and heroic deeds, through monographs on tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) through to fictionalised accounts of combat on land and at sea for younger readers.

Life and career
Bryan Perrett was born in 1934, and educated at Liverpool College. He was a successful career officer in the Royal Armoured Corps, including the 17th/21st Lancers, Westminster Dragoons and the Royal Tank Regiment, before retiring to become a full-time writer. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration. During the 1982 Falklands War and the 1991 Gulf War he was the defence correspondent on the Liverpool Echo. Since then he has concentrated on writing serious military histories that are nonetheless highly readable. His books have proven popular on both sides of the Atlantic, and have been translated into several foreign languages.

Family
Bryan Perrett is married, and currently lives in Ormskirk, Lancashire.

Published work
Perrett is a versatile writer, able to adapt his style to a wide variety of formats. (He was even captioning picture-strips for schoolgirl comics at one point.) He is best known for his accounts of general military history, with an emphasis on British land battles. Works include The Battle Book, a systematic treatment of 566 important land battles from 1469 BC to the present, Last Stand! and Against All Odds!, both being accounts of dramatic defensive battles, and For Valour, about holders of the Victoria Cross, and the actions in which they won them.

Starting in 1972 with an monograph on the British Valentine infantry tank in North Africa in 1942 and 1943, Perrett has written a series of books on specific tanks and other AFVs, mostly in British service, for Ian Allan Limited and more recently for Osprey Publishing. All are characterised by meticulous research from primary sources, and vivid accounts of both the machines and the men who fought in them.

More recently he has turned his pen to fictionalised accounts of combat on land and at sea, aimed at younger readers, in the My Story series of books. His titles in this series feature Waterloo, the Crimean War, the Battle of the Atlantic, and D-Day.

He has also written and contributed to several episodes of the Eagle Media Productions' series Fighting the Iron Fist, recently shown on Sky Television.

Selected works

 * Fighting Vehicles of the Red Army, Ian Allan Ltd., Shepperton, 1970: ISBN 0668023406
 * Nato Armour, Ian Allan Ltd., Shepperton, 1971: ASIN B006CV15PA
 * The Valentine in North Africa 1942-43, (Armour in Action 1) Ian Allan Ltd., Shepperton, 1972: ISBN 0-7110-0262-2
 * The Matilda, (Armour in Action 2) Ian Allan Ltd., Shepperton, 1973: ISBN 0-7110-0405-6
 * Tank Battles of World War I, (Armour in Action 3) Ian Allan Ltd., Shepperton, 1973
 * The Churchill, (Armour in Action 4) Ian Allan Ltd., Shepperton, 1974: ISBN 0-7110-0533-8
 * Last Stand! Famous Battles Against the Odds, Arms & Armour Press Press, London, 1991: ISBN 0853689970
 * The Battle Book: Crucial Conflicts in History from 1469 BC to the present, Arms & Armour Press Press, London, 1992: ISBN 1-85409-382-2
 * Against All Odds! More Dramatic 'Last Stand' Actions, Brockhampton Press, London, 1995: ISBN 1-86019-947-X
 * Trafalgar: James Grant, HMS Norseman 1799-1806, Scholastic Children's Books, London, 2002: ISBN 9780439994217
 * For Valour: Victoria Cross and Medal of Honor Battles, Cassell, London, 2003: ISBN 978-0297846628
 * Waterloo: Bob Jenkins, Royal House Artillery, 1814-1817, Scholastic Children's Books, London, 2003: ISBN 978-0439978170
 * Crimea: The Story of Michael Pope, 110th Regiment, 1853-1857 Scholastic Children's Books, London, 2004: ISBN 978-0439981118
 * D-Day: Lieutenant Andy Pope, Normandy, 1944, Scholastic Children's Books, London, 2004: ISBN 978-1407-10372-3
 * U-Boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum, 1939-1945, Scholastic Children's Books, London, 2005: ISBN 978-0439959384
 * Megiddo 1918: The Last Great Cavalry Victory, Campaign Series No.61, Osprey Books, Oxford, 2010: ISBN 978-1855328273