Forgotten Voices of the Victoria Cross

Informationen zum Autor Roderick Bailey in association with the Imperial War Museum Klappentext A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, Roderick Bailey is a historian attached to the Imperial War Museum. He is the author of Forgotten Voices of D-Day , Forgotten Voices of the Secret War , which was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and the acclaimed The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle . Zusammenfassung The Victoria Cross (VC), awarded to the most courageous and determined servicemen, is the highest military decoration that can be bestowed. This title presents first-hand accounts of soldiers, sailors and airmen describing the incredible events that earned these extraordinary men the VC in the last century.

Product details

• Authors: Roderick Bailey, Roderick Imperial War Museum (Great Britai Bailey, Bailey Roderick, Imperial War Museum, Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), The Imperial War Museum
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.10.2011
• EAN: 9780091938178
• ISBN: 978-0-09-193817-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Forgotten Voices
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Military institutions