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| Author | : Michael Ashcroft |
| Publisher | : Headline |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2012-10-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0755364503 |
This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all VCs ever awarded. He explains the history of the medal and the story of his fascination with it. The main text of the book tells the stories of both those recipients whose medals are in his collection and those whose stories featured in the television series. Each chapter covers a different conflict, from the Crimean War to Iraq.
| Author | : Michael Madden |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2018-03-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781925520989 |
This book is an ambitious endeavour to capture the history of Australia's pre-eminent award for acts of bravery in the face of the enemy and its highest military honour, the Victoria Cross (VC). Since 1856 when the award was created by Queen Victoria, 100 Australian servicemen have been recognised with the Cross. This book, however, is not a ......
| Author | : Victoria cross |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1867 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
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| Author | : John Winton |
| Publisher | : Frontline Books |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2016-07-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473876141 |
Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from Dar es Salaam to Zeebrugge, from the Barents to the Java Sea, from New Zealand to the North Atlantic, and from China to the Channel. They have been won in battleships and trawlers, in submarines below the water and aircraft above it, on horseback and on foot.Age and rank meant nothing. Boy Cornwall was not seventeen at Jutland, and Frederick Parslow was in his sixtieth year when he earned his VC on board a horse transport ship. William Hall was the son of a freed slave; Charles Lucas, awarded the Royal Navys first VC, became a Rear Admiral. Neither were all the recipients of Britains highest gallantry decoration British, and men from Canada, Australia and New Zealand were included in those whose actions were recognised by the awarding of the VC. Yet every one of them had one thing in common uncommon valour.
| Author | : Paul Oldfield |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2017-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473885000 |
In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted.Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - Cambrai to the German Spring Offensive is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close to, where each VC was won. Photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering every aspect of their lives warts and all: parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.
| Author | : Thomas Henry Kavanagh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 1860 |
| Genre | : Delhi (India) |
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| Author | : This England Books |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 1916 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Philip Aveling Wilkins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Commonwealth countries |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Gary Mead |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Books (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-04-07 |
| Genre | : Victoria Cross |
| ISBN | : 9781843542704 |
This controversial book, by one of the UK's finest military historians, reveals the squalid truth about Britain's highest military honor, exposing a shameful history of racism, misogyny, and political expediency. When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's highest military honor since the Falklands war in 1982 and the first living recipient since 1969, when two Australians were given the award for action in Vietnam. Born out of the squalor of the Crimean War in 1856 and the fragility of the monarchy at that time, the VC's prestige is such that it takes precedence over all other orders and medals in Britain. But while many books have been written about specific aspects of the VC and its recipients, none have asked why so many brave men who deserved the medal were denied it, and why no women have ever been awarded the VC, even though they are entitled. Military historian Gary Mead's vivid and balanced account of the VC's life and times exposes the hypocrisy behind one of the UK's last sacred cows, and explores its role as a barometer for the shifting sands of political and social change during the last 150 years.
