Memorials & rolls of honour books

They were among the sporting elite of 1914, the stars of the Northern Union. Yet despite their heroic status in...  Read More >>

FROM RURAL IDYLL TO THE LIVING HELL OF WAR, THE HORRORS FACED BY WHAT WERE, IN THE MAIN, SIMPLE COUNTRY LADS. THEIR...  Read More >>

Every day hundreds of people gather at the Australian War Memorial to hear a personal story of love, loss, service...  Read More >>

The poignant biography of Anita Leslie, the only woman to have won the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in WWII....  Read More >>

The sixth in a series of nine compelling books covering every VC on the Western Front.  Read More >>

Poor leadership, mismanagement, quarrels, distrust and accusations of hoaxing ... this is the story of what happened...  Read More >>

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The incredible and uplifting stories surrounding the recipients of this highest of honours as described by The Times...  Read More >>

How awards, decorations, and medals bestow social standing.  Read More >>

In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings...  Read More >>

Many books discuss in great detail what happened during Civil War battles. This is one of the few that investigates...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive biographical study of the Crimean VC holders ever compiled.  Read More >>

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory, place and identity by positioning...  Read More >>

A complete account of all the VCs awarded in the North African campaign in the Second World War.  Read More >>

While a chaplain to British units on the Western Front, David Railton carried a flag that served as both altar cloth...  Read More >>

The Victoria Cross is Britainand the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the faceof the...  Read More >>

The fifth in a series of nine compelling books covering every VC on the Western Front.  Read More >>

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Focuses on the pioneering work of a war graves photographer with the Graves Registration Units on the Western Front...  Read More >>

The first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's...  Read More >>

For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling...  Read More >>

Superb and inspiring tales of gallantry at sea.  Read More >>

Step through the iron gates of one of London's most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets...  Read More >>

This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the...  Read More >>

Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those...  Read More >>