Bravest
eBook - ePub

Bravest

Australia's Greatest War Heroes and How They Won Their Medals

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bravest

Australia's Greatest War Heroes and How They Won Their Medals

About this book

From the Boer War to the war in Vietnam, Bravest tells the story of 15 Australian war heroes and how they won the highest medals awarded for bravery.
 
The Victoria Cross is the highest award for valor that can be won by an Australian; just 97 Australians have been awarded the VC in conflicts from the Boer War to the Afghanistan War. And only 14 Australians have been awarded the George Cross, the ultimate medal for heroism away from active combat, since its inception in 1940. But what is it that makes these remarkable soldiers risk everything in defense of their country and their mates? Noted biographer Robert Macklin tells the inspirational story of 15 Australian recipients of the Victoria and George Crosses, from Neville Howse in South Africa in 1900 to the heroes of the Great War such as Albert Jacka, "Diver" Derrick in the Second World War, and Keith Payne in Vietnam in 1969.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Victoria Cross and George Cross
  4. Title
  5. Imprint
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. ‘One miserable scribbler’ and a little bit of ribbon
  10. ‘A matter of chance’
  11. Bullets ‘thick as hail’
  12. ‘I begin to hate the damned country where I was born’
  13. ‘An ardent Australian patriot’
  14. ‘I managed to get the buggers, Sir’
  15. ‘The bravest man in the Aussie Army’
  16. ‘Tell Dad I’m still fighting’
  17. ‘A compelling, ubiquitous figure’
  18. An ideal leader
  19. ‘I wasn’t mad’
  20. ‘Hit with a sledge hammer’
  21. A paradoxical attitude to heroes
  22. ‘To live and learn and see much’
  23. Cross purposes
  24. Down to the wire
  25. The endless day
  26. The larrikin
  27. One of our very best
  28. One among many
  29. ‘Guest of the Emperor’
  30. That moment of decision
  31. Courage beyond compare
  32. ‘That’s what I’m here for, Sir’
  33. ‘His crew before himself’
  34. ‘One’s nerves suffer a bit’
  35. A wall of fire
  36. A war of nerves
  37. ‘Indomitable’
  38. ‘We went and had a beer’
  39. Anomalies
  40. Acknowledgements
  41. Afterword
  42. Bibliography
  43. List of VC winners
  44. Notes