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The Victoria Cross at Sea The Sailors, Marines and Naval Airmen Awarded Britain's Highest Honour

Door John Winton

Categorie
Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer
#231183
Titel
The Victoria Cross at Sea The Sailors, Marines and Naval Airmen Awarded Britain's Highest Honour
Auteur
Winton, John
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Barnsley, Frontline Books
Jaar van uitgave
1978
ISBN10
1473876125
ISBN13
9781473876125
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
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 Navy's first VC, became a Rear Admiral. Neither were all the recipients of Britain's highest gallantry decorati... (Lees verder)on 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.
Pagina's
278
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 12,50

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