Yorkshire VCs by Alan Whitworth - 9781848847781

Brand New Hardcover. First Edition. Published 2012.\nOf the 1,357 Victoria Crosses ever awarded, no fewer than 69 examples of Britain's supreme medal for gallantry have gone to men from a single county: Yorkshire. This book, which will make the heart of every Yorkshireman swell with pride, tells the story of each of these heroic deeds.\n\nToday the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 of these medals have been won, and no less than 69 of them have gone to Yorkshiremen. Alan Whitworth, in this carefully researched and revealing account, describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite group of heroes. Among the roll of the brave whose gallantry and self-sacrifice are celebrated in these pages the reader will find the names and extraordinary deeds of men who were ei.