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

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Notes

INTRODUCTION

1. PRO File WO/32/9394. Letter from Colour Sergeant Harry Hampton to the Private
   Secretary of King George V, 30 September 1920.


2. John Keegan and Richard Holmes,Soldiers: A History of Men in Battle(New York: Viking
   Penguin, 1986).


3. John Keegan,The Face of Battle(London: Cox & Wyman, 1976).


4. Patrick M. Regan,Organizing Societies for War(Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994); Hew Strachan,
   European Armies and the Conduct of War(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983).


5. Lord Moran,The Anatomy of Courage(London: Constable, 1945; reprint: Garden City
   Park, NY: Avery Publishing Group, 1987).


6. Le Roy Eltinge,Psychology of War(Fort Leavenworth, KS: Press of the Army Service
   Schools, 1915).


7. Plinio Prioreschi,Man and War(New York: Philosophical Library, 1987).


8. For example, see David Harvey,Monuments to Courage(n.p.: Kevin & Kay Patience, 1999),
   a compilation of VC grave sites;The Illustrated Handbook of the Victoria Cross and the George
   Cross(London: Imperial War Museum, 1970);The Register of the Victoria Cross, ed. Nora
   Buzzell (Cheltenham, UK: This England Books, 1988). Cited hereafter asRegister.


9. For example, see A. L. Hayden,The Book of the V. C.(London: Pilgrim Press, 1906);
   J. E. Muddock,‘For Valour’ the ‘V. C.’(London: Hutchinson, 1895); D. H. Parry,Britain’s
   Roll of Glory(London: Cassell, 1906) ; D. H. Parry,The VC: Its Heroes and Their Valour
   (London: Cassell, 1913); T. E. Toomey,Heroes of the Victoria Cross(n.p.: Newnes, 1895);
   P. A. Wilkins,History of the Victoria Cross(London: Constable, 1904)


10. Sir O’Moore Creagh and E. M. Humphries,The Victoria Cross, 1856–1920 (reprint:
    London: J. B. Hayward & Son, 1985).


11. For example, see N. McCrery,For Conspicuous Gallantry–A Brief History of the Recipients of the
    VC from Notts and Derbyshire(n.p.: n.p., 1990); see also I. S. Uys,For Valour: The History of
    South Africa’s Victoria Cross(Johannesburg: Uys, 1973).


12. Examples of this genre can be found in F. J. Blatherwick,1000 Brave Canadians(Toronto: The
    Unitrade Press, 1991), which details the exploits of other decoration winners in addition
    to the Victoria Cross; G. Machum,Canada’s VCs(Toronto: McClelland & Steward, 1956;
    Graham Ross,Scotland’s Forgotten Valour(Maclean Press, 1995); L. Wigmore and B. Harding,
    They Dared Mightily(Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1963); W. Alister Williams,The
    VCs of Wales and the Welsh Regiments(Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1984).


13. For example, see Chaz Bowyer,For Valour: The Air VCs(Kimber, 1978); W. J. Elliot,
    The Victoria Cross in Zululand and South Africa(London: Dean & Son, 1982); W. S. James,
    Submariners VC(London: Peter Davis, 1962); W. E. Johns,The Air VCs(London: Hamilton,
    1935); Roger Perkins,The Kashmir Gate–Lieutenant Home and the Delhi VCs(Chippenham:
    Picton Publications, 1983); J. F. Turner,V. C.’s of the Air(London: Harrap, 1960);
    J. Winton,The Victoria Cross at Sea(London: Michael Joseph, 1978).


14. John Laffin,British VCs of World War 2(London: Alan Sutton, 1997).
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