Yorkshire VCs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yorkshire VCs write by Alan Whitworth. This book was released on 2012-10-24. Yorkshire VCs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 of these medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850's, 1,357 have been won, and no less than 69 of them have gone to Yorkshiremen. Alan Whitworth, in this carefully researched and revealing account, describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite group of heroes.
VCs of the North
VCs of the North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook VCs of the North write by Alan Whitworth. This book was released on 2015-10-30. VCs of the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
VCs The Sideshows
VCs The Sideshows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook VCs The Sideshows write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2014-08-01. VCs The Sideshows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thirteenth and final volume of the ‘VCs of the First World War’ series features the lives and careers of forty-six servicemen who won the coveted Victoria Cross in theatres of war – or ‘Sideshows’, as they became known – beyond the Western Front and Gallipoli.Opening with the stories of four VC winners who took part in the prolonged struggle to drive the German Army out of East Africa, VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows goes on to tell the stories of the two Indian Army winners of the VC defending the North-West Frontier. Finally, it covers the campaigns against the Austro–German forces in Italy; securing the oil wells in Mesopotamia (later Iraq); defending the Suez Canal and attacking the Ottoman Army in Palestine and lastly serving in Salonika in the Balkans.Each VC winner’s act of bravery is recorded here in intricate detail, together with the background of the men and their lives after the war – if they survived.
The Naturalist
The Naturalist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Naturalist write by . This book was released on 1925. The Naturalist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915
VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915 write by Peter F. Batchelor. This book was released on 2012-05-30. VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the early campaigns and by January 1915 were holding some 30 miles of trench. The year 1915 was to witness some of the bloodiest and bitter battles of the Great War, including the first blooding at Neuve Chapelle, the Second Battle of Ypres and the appalling failure of Loos. By the end of the summer almost 50,000 men of Kitchener's Army had been killed. This book tells the story of the 67 VC winners from this period on the Western Front. Each of their stories are different and 20 medals were awarded posthumously. However, they all have one thing in common - acts of extraordinary bravery under fire.
