Michael Ashcroft

Victoria Cross Heroes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755364503
• Artikelnr.: 39210915

Autorenporträt

Michael Ashcroft: Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, author and philanthropist. He was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and founder and chairman of the board of trustees of Crimestoppers. He is a trustee of Imperial War Museums, chairman of the trustees of Ashcroft Technology Academy and Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix
Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VC xiii
Author's Royalties xvii
Lord Ashcroft and Bravery xix
Preface xxi
Chapter 1: A Passion for the VC 1
Chapter 2: The Crimean War 21
Chapter 3: The Indian Mutiny and Beyond 57
Chapter 4: The Second Anglo-Boer War and Beyond 107
Chapter 5: The First World War and Beyond: Army VCs 133
Chapter 6: The First World War: Naval and Air VCs 255
Chapter 7: The Second World War 305
Select Bibliography 359
Picture Credits 365
Index 367