Extraordinary first-hand accounts from Victoria Cross winners
A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, Roderick Bailey is a historian attached to the Imperial War Museum. He is the author of Forgotten Voices of D-Day, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, which was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and the acclaimed The Wildest Province- SOE in the Land of the Eagle.
This profound study by Roderick Bailey goes a long way to
identifying the common characteristics of the bravest of the brave
... Here is a testament to what is good about humankind against the
backdrop of what can be the worst. The abiding thought with which
the reader is left is one of hope; that adversity can indeed bring
out the best in us. These "Forgotten Voices" are eloquent in
proclaiming this enduring truth
*General Sir Richard Dannatt, from the Introduction*
A significant and important book ... Over the last 45 years I have
read hundreds of VC books but this volume has a unique place
because of the "voices" of the VCs themselves ... Highly
recommended and should be read by anyone with an interest in the
VC
*Victoria Cross Society*
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