Titlebook: Awarded for Valour; A History of the Vic Melvin Charles Smith Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

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Fifty Years On: A Half-Century of Heroism,tical universe. For our purposes what is critical are the trends in the types of acts that were winning the VC, the ‘cost of courage’ in terms of casualties amongst those identified as heroes, and the pattern of distribution of the award throughout the ranks of the military.

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1914: The Last Stand of the Thin Red Line, Britain suddenly found itself propelled into a full-scale continental war against one of the foremost industrial powers of Europe. It was a conflict for which the British military establishment was scarcely prepared.

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,Teething Problems, 1856–1867,warrant governing everything from the color of the suspender ribbon (red for the army, blue for the Navy) to the circumstances by which a winner could be stripped of the honor. The operative clauses were quite vague, however, and offered no exact definition of what was to be considered heroic and worthy of reward.

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Hiroshi Furukawa,Yutaka Nakamurahanges and the decisions of the VC committee at the end of the First World War the cost of heroism increased for the remainder of the century and the nature of the hero became something very different from that of his nineteenth-century ancestor. The heroism of the frontier had also paled in compari

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