Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

AWARDED FOR VALOUR A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of British Heroism Melvin Charles Smith ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-i 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii Studies in Military and Strategic History General Editor:William P ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-ii 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS ITALIAN ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-iii 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii AWARDED FORVALOUR A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolut ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-iv 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii © Melvin Charles Smith 2008 All rights reserved. No reproduction, ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-v 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii Contents List of Tables vi Acknowledgements vii Introduction: The ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-vi 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii List of Tables 5.1 Acts winning the Victoria Cross, nineteenth ce ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-vii 16:3 9780230_547056_01_previii Acknowledgements I would like to extend my firm thanks to all of ...

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January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-1 16:3 9780230_547056_02_int Introduction: The Forgotten Hero J ust under two years after the end o ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-2 16:3 9780230_547056_02_int 2 AWARDED FOR VALOUR work,The Face of Battle.^3 Neither Hew Strachan’s ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-3 16:3 9780230_547056_02_int INTRODUCTION 3 the Flag for generations to come.’ Like the pure refere ...

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-4 16:3 9780230_547056_02_int 4 AWARDED FOR VALOUR memoranda and other correspondence that are not f ...

ONE ‘I’ve broken my arm, Dick, but never mind me now’: The Hero in Victorian Popular Mythology A British tar is a soaring soul, ...

6 AWARDED FOR VALOUR These elements are most clearly stated in the heroic poetry and literature of the Victorian era. These rang ...

THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 7 hero was his own reputation more than the good of thepolisor the needs of his comrades ...

8 AWARDED FOR VALOUR his task of founding a new city. War is a hateful but necessary thing to Aeneas; despite his prowess at arm ...

THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 9 but to the wild hurrey of a distracted Woeman, with as mad a crew at her heeles.^17 No ...

10 AWARDED FOR VALOUR romanticism and colored by a self-assured sense of national destiny. Elements of these earlier heroic idea ...

THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 11 the knowledge that one might not get in on the action was a cause for remorse: ‘A ves ...