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The Life of Lee - Lee Evans
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The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
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Oliver Twist Designed by Sir Peter Blake
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The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
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Rob Brydon - Small Man In A Book
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"CAT ON THE HILL" By Michael Foreman
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House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
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The Death of King Arthur - Peter Ackroyd
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Andy William - Moon River and Me
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Atlantic - Simon Winchester
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Treasure Island Designed by Frank Gehry
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The Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People - Andrew Marr
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James and the Giant Peach Designed by Antony Gormley
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Hestons Fantastical Feasts - Heston Blumenthal
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Monsters in the Movies - John Landis
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Primrose Bakery Book - Martha Swift
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Beatles Sat on Plymouth Hoe
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How it all Began - Penelope Lively
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Little Women Designed by Orla Kiely
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Empire - Jeremy Paxman
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Monsters in the Movies - John Landis
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The Life of Lee - Lee Evans
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The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
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House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
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The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
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The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
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The Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People - Andrew Marr
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Rob Brydon - Small Man In A Book
Supreme Courage - General Sir Peter de la Billiere
Since the 1850s the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British armed forces. It bears the simple legend `For Valour', but behind it lie legends of a different kind: humbling tales of almost unimaginable bravery.
Supreme Courage tells some of those stories, bringing the history of the medal alive with blowby-blow accounts of courage in action. Recreating battle-scenes from across the globe, from the Crimean War to the Second World War, peppering his narrative with letters and first-hand reports, Sir Peter de la Billiere looks deep into the hearts and minds of a number of exceedingly brave men. Soldiers like Captain Noel Chavasse, the doctor who spent three years in the trenches during the First World War, rescuing and treating the wounded under relentless enemy attack - a man who exemplified the astounding modesty and dedication to duty of the VC holder. Chavasse died at Passchendaele in 1917, and in so doing became one of only three men to receive the VC twice. The award was made - tragically, as for so many VC winners - posthumously.
With accounts of Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Gurkhas and Indians, and backed by his own experience of war in many theatres, the author does more than accompany the men into battle. He reveals their backgrounds and characters, and shows how high the price of fame can be. Some winners have been unable to handle the renown that the award brought them, several have committed suicide, and others have ended their lives in paupers' graves neglected by the nation they served.
Thrilling and often intensely moving, Supreme Courage is an important addition to the literature of war, and a magnificent monument to heroism.
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