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- Mark Adkin,The Last Eleven?(London: Leo Cooper, 1991).
- Titles published in theVCs of the First World Warseries include three by Gerald Gliddon:
1914 (London: Alan Sutton, 1994),The Somme(London, Alan Sutton, 1994), andArras
and Messines– 1917 (London: Alan Sutton, 1998); and one volume by Peter Batchelor
and Chris Matson,The Western Front– 1915 (n.p.: Wrens Park Publishing, 1999). - The spectrum of biographies are represented by Robert A. Bonner,‘Here We Fight,
Here We Die!’(n.p.:R. A. Bonner, 1998); Mary Gibson,Warneford, VC(Chippenham:
Picton Publishing, 1984); Peter D. Mason,Nicolson, VC(Ashford: Geerings, 1991);
Ann Clayton,Martin-Leake,Double VC(London: Leo Cooper, 1997); and Richard Morris,
Cheshire: The Biography of Leonard Cheshire(New York: Viking, 2000). - M. J. Crook,The Evolution of the Victoria Cross: A Study in Administrative History(Tunbridge
Wells: Midas Books, 1975). - Ibid., pp. 81, 83, 84, 143, to give four examples of this problem.
- Ibid., pp. 93–4. See Chapter 3 of this work for the entire story.
CHAPTER 1 - Leonard M. Ashley,George Alfred Henty and the Victorian Mind(San Francisco: International
Scholars Publications, 1999), 327–42. This point is extrapolated from Ashley’s eval-
uation of G. A. Henty’s influence on the cultural ideology of Victorian Youth. See
also James Bowen, ‘Education, Ideology and the Ruling Class: Hellenism and English
Public Schools in the Nineteenth Century’, in G. W. Clarke, ed.,Rediscovering Hellenism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 179–80. - Patrick Brantlinger,Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism(Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1988), 47–9. See also W. L. Burn,The Age of Equipoise(New York:
W. W. Norton, 1969), 78–80. The novels of Captain Frederick Marryat were pioneering
works of the genre. - Richard P. Martin,The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in The Iliad(Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1989), 89–91, 97–8. - Christopher Gill,Personality in the Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue(Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1996), 74–5. - Maurice B. McNamee, S.J.,Honor and the Epic Hero: A Study of the Shifting Concept of Magnanimity
in Philosophy and Epic Poetry(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960), 1–3. - Homer,The Iliad, A. T. Murray, trans. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999),
2:341–5. - Homer,The Odyssey, A. T. Murray, trans. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1995), 1:350–5; 1:451–3. - Gregory Nagy,The Best of the Achaeans(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
1999), 115–16. - Richard Jenkyns,The Victorians and Ancient Greece(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1980), 167–8; Frank M. Turner,The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain(New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1981), 172–5. - Norman Vance,The Victorians and Ancient Rome(Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 199–202.
- McNamee,Honor and the Epic Hero, 40–3.
- Henry Newbolt, Untitled invocation at the beginning ofAdmirals All and Other Verses
(London: Elkin Mathews, 1908).