YORKSHIRE VCS by Alan Whitworth

Pen & Sword Military, 2012-04-18. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Book is in very good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. Price sticker on the front cover.

Pen & Sword Military, 2012-04-19. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Book is in very good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket.

Pen & Sword Military, 2012-04-18. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Book is in very good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. Today 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 either born or bred or lived and died in Yorkshire. The first was Yorkshire-born Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson in 1857. He set an example that has been followed by generations of Yorkshire soldiers through the conflicts of the late nineteenth century - among them the Indian Mutiny and the wars in Afghanistan and South… Read More

Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Copy With No Signatures Inscriptions Or Notations Found. Photo Illustrations. Black Cloth Hard Cover With Gilt Titled Spine - No Visible Wear. Complete Jacket In Similar Condition..