Michael Ashcroft

Victoria Cross Heroes

Volume 11

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This tells the true action-packed stories behind over 50 awards of the Victoria Cross spanning from its creation in the Crimean War to the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781785900976
• ISBN-10: 1785900978
• Artikelnr.: 45527223

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