Download or read book Valor written by John Gwynne and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has erupted in the Banished Lands as the race for power intensifies. Corban flees his homeland searching for peace, but he soon discovers that there is no haven in the west as the agents of Rhin and roaming bands of giants hound his every step. Veradis leaves the battleground and rushes to his King's side. But he has witnessed both combat and betrayal and his duty weighs heavily upon him. Maquin seeks only revenge, but pirate slavers and the brutal world of pit-fighting stand in his way. Nathair becomes embroiled in the wars of the west as Queen Rhin marches against King Owain. The need to find the cauldron of the giants drives him on. Sides are chosen and oaths will be fulfilled or broken in a land where hell has broken loose.
Download or read book Uncommon Valour written by Granville Allen Mawer and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military historian presents a provocative study of the Victoria Cross, the heroes it honors, and the ethics of the British honors system. What is the nature of courage? How and when should it be recognized? How has our appreciation of it changed over time? These are among the questions Granville Allen Mawer seeks to answer in this absorbing history of the Victoria Cross, the highest honor awarded to members of the British Armed Forces for valor in the presence of the enemy. Uncommon Valor is both an analytical account of the institution of the Victoria Cross and a fascinating study of the ethics of rewarding bravery. It explores the origin of the award, the rationale behind individual awards, and the ways in which the institution has evolved over its long history. Historian Granville Allen Mawer compares individual actions that led to a Victoria Cross, analyzing the circumstances in which they took place, the character of the individual concerned, and the shifting criteria for giving awards. This unconventional treatment of the Victoria Cross may be controversial, but it should stimulate a deeper understanding of the history of the medal and of the heroism of those to whom it has been awarded.
Download or read book The Valour of Faith Or The Gospel in the Life of Gideon written by George Albert Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awarded for Valour written by M. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on primary source research, this is the most comprehensive history of the Victoria Cross available, tracing the evolution of the award from its inception in 1856 to the most recent bestowals. The study also examines the evolution of the concept of heroism and how the definition of heroism changed along with the nature of warfare.
Download or read book For Valour written by and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories of every Canadian winner of the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest award for gallantry, during the First World War. With a scope that covers the entire global conflict, For Valour follows soldiers from across Canada, all united by valour above and beyond the call of duty.
Download or read book Desperate Valour written by Flint Whitlock and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and comprehensive account of the Battle of Anzio and the Alamo-like stand of American and British troops that turned certain defeat into victory The four-month-long 1944 battle on Italy's coast, south of Rome, was one of World War II's longest and bloodiest battles. Surrounded by Nazi Germany's most fanatical troops, American and British amphibious forces endured relentless mortar and artillery barrages, aerial bombardments, and human-wave attacks by infantry with panzers. Through it all, despite tremendous casualties, the Yanks and Tommies stood side by side, fighting with, as Winston Churchill said, "desperate valour." So intense and heroic was the fighting that British soldiers were awarded two Victoria Crosses, while American soldiers received twenty-six Medals of Honor--ten of them awarded posthumously. The unprecedented defensive stand ended with the Allies breaking out of their besieged beachhead and finally reaching their goal: Rome. They had truly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Award-winning author and military historian Flint Whitlock uses official records, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews with participants to capture the desperate nature of the fighting and create a comprehensive account of the unrelenting slugfest at Anzio. Desperate Valour is a stirring chronicle of courage beyond measure.
Download or read book Uncommon Valour written by Paul O'Brien and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the Irish Volunteers who fought in the South Dublin Union building during the 1916 Easter Rising.
Download or read book A Man of Valour Idioms and Epigrams written by Gift Gugu Mona and published by Precious Gift Institute. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a full package dedicated to shaping the life and mindset of a man. Each topic delves deeply into the often-overlooked focal points that bind the ligaments of the modern man, touching on a specific aspect of manhood. It is a complete guide for a young man who wants to become progressive, a recipe book for a single mother who wants to help her son become a man, and an alpenstock for a man who wants to live up to his duty to live a good life. Dr. Gift Gugu Mona bravely and without holding back, declares to the present generation what it takes to be a real man and, using concrete examples, directs all men to the foundational principles of their nature. The book – A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams – comes at a time when the issue of identity formation is taking centre stage in many African countries. With these immaculately coined idioms and epigrams, Dr. Mona offers some comprehensive explorations of a man of valour. A powerful and life-changing book, this is.
Download or read book Valour and the Horror Revisited written by David J. Bercuson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1992 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcast The Valour and the Horror, a three-part television series on Canada's role in World War II. It sparked a major controversy among viewers, war veterans, and historians. Brian and Terence McKenna, the authors-producers of the series, were accused of distorting historical facts, maligning individuals such as commanders Arthur Harris and Guy Simonds, presenting a biased account of events, and overstepping the line between journalism and drama. The Valour and the Horror Revisited brings together source documents, original essays, and commentaries to provide an analysis of the specific accusations and of larger questions concerning responsible journalism. Included in the collection are reports by David Bercuson and S.F. Wise, who were asked by the CBC ombudsman to assess the series; the CBC ombudsman's report; the McKennas' response to the ombudsman's report; the ombudsman's commentary on the McKennas' response; and three new essays by historians John Ferris, William McAndrew, and Scot Robertson on the incidents covered in the series - Canadian involvement in the battles in Hong Kong and Normandy, and the bombing of Germany. The Valour and the Horror Revisited addresses such important issues as the dangers of "docudrama," the calibre of the Canadian media, the meaning of the Canadian experience in the war, and the nature of history.
Download or read book Gideon the mighty man of valour By Lady H arriet H oward written by H. H. and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book By Valour and Arms written by James H. Street and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Street has a gift for sifting the ashes of history, adding a portion of romance and adventure, a pinch of this and that, and compounding his own formula for historical novels. This is his best and he uses the battle for Vicksburg, the saga of the Confederate ironclad Arkansas and the Union ram Queen of the West for a story as big as the Mississippi. The epic of the Arkansas, built in the wilderness by men who hauled her iron and guns hundreds of miles by ox wagons, is one of the most amazing and little-known dramas of history. She struck terror from Illinois to New Orleans and became a ship that men whispered about; a ghost ship whose guns kept blazing although there were no men aboard her. Mr. Street gives us a galaxy of characters in this book. Most of the action revolves around three Confederate sailors; Wyeth Woodward, gunner's mate, who hates war; Simeon St. Leger Granville, a British soldier of fortune whose lust for battle is exceeded only by his lust for drink, and Vespasian Gillivray, the lovable Cajan, a descendant of the Creeks of Mr. Street's Oh, Promised Land. The fourth member of a quartet you never will forget is Dolly — fat, cold, deadly. She is a nine-inch Dahlgren gun on whose breech is engraved By Valour and Arms. There also is Gar Rivers, an inspiring Negro, an artist of sorts who fought for a slave-owning people. In these pages you will meet Laurel MacKenzie, betrothed to Wyeth, and Morna (Dabney) Alexander, who wants the young sailor just to prove to herself that marriage has not dulled her charms. Tap Roots' readers will remember her and her melancholiac husband, Keith Alexander, a Southerner who fights for the Union. Keith is here, too, contemptuous as ever of his own life and the lives of others. Then there is Sharon Weatherford, a rooming-house keeper in Natchez-Under-the-Hill. Her love for Simeon St. Leger Granville apparently is a hopeless thing, and yet she, a social and racial outcast, meets every challenge, and triumphs. The story begins with the building of the Arkansas and ends with the fall of Vicksburg, which was to the South what Hastings was to England during the Norman conquest. The Union was saved in the West, but that theater has been neglected. Few Americans realize that the Battle of Franklin was bloodier than Gettysburg, that the Arkansas created more havoc than the Merrimac, and that Vicksburg held out for more than a year. As in Tap Roots, Mr. Street warns his readers again that they will not find the Civil War of Lee and Jackson in this book. This is history as it happened, not the dry meager words of textbooks or the dulcet tones of the julep school. Scoundrels and mountebanks work and cheat in the red glare of Vicksburg's guns. But man is at his best while making war and even when human life is not as dear as rotten mule meat, there are those who prove again that there always will be honor, decency, and dignity for those willing to fight for them.
Download or read book Lave and Valour written by Tom Hood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Love and Valour written by Thomas Hood and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love and Valour written by Tom Hood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Download or read book Men of Valour written by Ron Palenski and published by Hodder Moa. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1941 New Zealand?s citizen soldiers, not long removed from their day jobs, were thrust into a type of fighting the world had not seen before: a land force against an airborne invasion. It was man against machines. In many ways, Crete became in the Second World War what Gallipoli had been in the First: another Dunkirk ? a scrambling effort to survive after defeat. This book breathes new life into the baptism of fire for New Zealand?s men of valour. It puts a human face on a military disaster, a failure that paradoxically was as large for the victors, the Germans, as it was for the losers, the Allies, among whom New Zealanders dominated. Crete tempered the New Zealand Division, and it went on to become one of the most respected and admired fighting forces of the Second World War.
Download or read book Love Valour Compassion written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: At a beautiful Dutchess County farmhouse, eight men hash out their passions, resentments and fears over the course of three summer weekends. There's Perry and Arthur, a professional couple of long standing, whose relationship, while stra
Download or read book True Tales of Travel and Adventure Valour and Virtue written by James Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
