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Author : David Harvey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Monuments to Courage written by David Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Harvey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Monuments to Courage: 1917-1982 written by David Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Whitworth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473848237
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book VCs of the North written by Alan Whitworth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 of these medals have been won, and almost fifty of them have gone to the soldiers of Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland . Alan Whitworth, in this carefully researched and revealing account, describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite band of heroes. Within this group of Northern VC recipients are a number of outstanding names, including Richard Annand who gained the first VC of the Second World War and Roland Bradford who was one of only four sets of brothers to have secured the VC. He also had the distinction of becoming the youngest general in the British army. But among the roll of the brave whose gallantry and self-sacrifice are celebrated in these pages the reader will find the names and extraordinary deeds of many other men who were either born or bred or lived and died in the North. They will also find the story of the youngest Victoria Cross recipient who won his award aged just nineteen.The stories of these ordinary individuals who have 'performed some signal act of valour or devotion to their country' will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in military history in general and in the long military tradition of the North of England.
Author : Joyce Emmerson Muddock
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Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (451 download)
Download or read book "For Valour": the "V.C." written by Joyce Emmerson Muddock and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ashcroft
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785901400
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II written by Michael Ashcroft and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC THE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its creation during the Crimean War. Lord Ashcroft, who has been fascinated with bravery since he was a young boy, now owns 200 VCs, by far the largest collection of its kind in the world. Following on from the bestselling Victoria Cross Heroes, first published in 2006 to mark the 150th anniversary of the award, Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II gives extraordinary accounts of the bravery behind the newest additions to Lord Ashcroft's VC collection - those decorations purchased in the last decade. With nearly sixty action-packed stories of courageous soldiers, sailors and airmen from a range of global conflicts including the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58, the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and the First and Second World Wars, this book is a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit and a worthy tribute to the servicemen who earned the Victoria Cross. Their inspirational deeds of valour and self-sacrifice should be championed and never forgotten.
Author : Frank Mundell
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Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Stories of the Victoria Cross written by Frank Mundell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Leyland
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ISBN 13 : 9781258511425
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (114 download)
Download or read book For Valour written by Eric Leyland and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317002415
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War written by Richard Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented those experiences to the voting public reveals much about the political culture of Interwar Britain and the use of the Great War as political capital. Radicalised ex-servicemen have, thus far, been considered a rather continental phenomenon historiographically. And whilst attitudes to Hitler and Mussolini form part of this analysis, the study also explores why there were fewer such types in Britain. The Conservative Party, it will be shown, played a crucial part in such a process - with British politics serving as a contested space for survivors' interpretations of what the war should mean.
Author : Thomas Henry Kavanagh
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book How I Won the Victoria Cross written by Thomas Henry Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : This England Books
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ISBN 13 : 9780906324073
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Register of the Victoria Cross written by This England Books and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ilija Šutalo
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546516
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Croatians in Australia written by Ilija Šutalo and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilija Sutalo has given us a detailed and fascinating insight into Croatian settlers from the 1800s to the present, the likes of which has never before been attempted. Yet Croatians have been here for 150 years, and, by the 1930s, were well organised and conscious of their heritage. A people without whom Australia could not have developed and grown.
Author : Brian Best
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526772477
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Unrewarded Courage written by Brian Best and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical analysis of the courageous military acts denied the highest award from the British honours system. The Victoria Cross is the most exclusive and prestigious of all gallantry awards. In order to retain this exclusivity, the standard of courage, endeavor or sacrifice required for a recommendation to be accepted for the award of the VC must be of the highest possible order. This has meant that many extremely courageous acts have failed to be rewarded with the VC, even though they appear to be just as remarkable in the level of danger and daring as some of those which were accepted for the medal. The reason for this, is that the awarding of the VC, indeed even the acknowledgment from a commanding officer that an individual’s action merits submission to the selection board, is entirely subjective. What one general might consider to be of exceptional valor might be regarded by another senior officer as merely a soldier carrying out his duty. When Trooper Clement Roberts rode into the thick of battle in South Africa to rescue a young war reporter who had been thrown from his horse, little did he know that he was saving the life of Britain’s future wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Recommended for the VC, Roberts was eventually awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Similarly, following the airborne operation at Arnhem in the Second World War, Captain Michael Dauncey was recommended by three other officers for the award of the Victoria Cross. These appeals, however, were rejected. The reasons behind the failure to award Lieutenant Colonel Paddy Mayne, a member of 1st SAS Regiment, the VC, despite repeated calls for his actions to be recognized in such a manner, was the subject of an Early Day Motion put before the House of Commons as recently as June 2005. In this revealing and unique analysis of actions that did not result in the award of the VC, despite recommendations to this effect, Brian Best has highlighted the uneven decisions made throughout the decades and in campaigns around the globe, that led to some men becoming national heroes and others, equally courageous, being merely footnotes in history. Praise for Unrewarded Courage “There have been plenty of books about the Victoria Cross and the men who were awarded them, but this is the first, I think, about acts of bravery and valour that apparently did not merit the award. Absolutely brilliant.” —Books Monthly (UK)
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (465 download)
Download or read book For Valour; Or, How I Won the Victoria Cross written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole McEntee-Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781593094
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Herbert Columbine VC written by Carole McEntee-Taylor and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save Yourselves, I'll carry on'. These were the last known words of Herbert Columbine, shouted at his two companions on the afternoon of 22nd March 1918. At 9am that morning, in Hervilly Woods, France, 9 Squadron Machine Gun Corps had come under intense attack from a heavy force of German infantry. Private Columbine took command of an isolated gun, with no wire in front and began firing. As the German onslaught grew and casualties mounted, Herbert and two others eventually became separated from the rest of their Squadron. After several hours it became clear their position would soon be overrun so Herbert told them to escape while they could. Now on his own, Herbert hung on tenaciously, repelling several attacks, each one deadlier than the last. He was only defeated after the Germans bought up air support and dropped a bomb on his position. Herbert Columbine has no known grave.??All author royalties from the sale of this book go to the Columbine Statue Fund of which Dame Judi Dench is Patron. This is a project to raise money for a lasting memorial to Herbert Columbine in his home town of Walton on?the Naze, Essex. For more information please visit www.carolemctbooks.info/herbert-columbine-vc/
Author : Joyce Emmerson Muddock
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Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (156 download)
Download or read book For Valour the V.C. written by Joyce Emmerson Muddock and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Lincoln Haydon
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Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Book of the V.C. written by Arthur Lincoln Haydon and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Victoria Cross ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
