True Canadian Victoria Cross heroes
By: Arthur Bishop ; foreword by Henry N.R. Jackman
Publisher: Prospero Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781552677223
Subjects: Victoria Cross; Biography; Armed Forces; Military History; Biographies; Forces armées; Histoire militaire
Notes: Originally published: Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995 under title: Our bravest and our best.
Table of contents: title: The heroic Hussar; title: The surgeon and the sailor; title: Army Surgeon Cum Seafarer; title: The soldiers of the Queen; title: No nobler a nation; title: "Mick"; title: A magnificent display; title: On his forty-seventh birthday; title: Canadian VCs at the Somme; title: The cavalry charge that won a VC; title: The four VCs of Vimy Ridge; title: The hour of the wolf; title: My father's VC; title: The hell of hill 70; title: "Come on the Tigers!"; title: Canada's cavalry; title: The Canadian cavalry at Cambrai; title: Their backs to the wall; title: "Bus" MacLeod and the flying circus; title: The resolute reject; title: "I mean to come back with the VC"; title: Day one of the 100 days; title: Coincidences Canadian; title: VC style; title: Consolidation; title: The bemedalled VCs of the Battle of Scarpe; title: Seven Canadian VCs in one day in a single action; title: Breakthrough; title: the last major battle of the war; title: Capture and prevention at Cambrai; title: The eleventh hour; title: The Canadian VCs of World War II; title: "Duck, lads!"; title: Foote and Merritt at Dieppe; title: Ordeal at Oran; title: "Ils ne passeront pas"; title: Lifting the siege of Arakan; title: Stubborn resistance on the Melfa Bridgehead; title: The supreme sacrifice of three Air Force VCs; title: The southern Albertans lay siege to St. Lambert; title: A one-man army; title: Belated tribute; title: The whirling dervish; title: The gallant orderly; title: Canada's last VC.