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COPYRIGHT 2004 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
SUPREME COURAGE by General Sir Peter de la Billiere Little, Brown, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 387, ISBN 0316725919 18 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848
On the 150th anniversary of the first deed for which a Victoria Cross was awarded, this admirable book recounts some of the tales of those who have won it. The earliest, a young naval officer called Charles Lucas, ran forward instead of taking cover when a bomb landed, sizzling, on the deck of HMS Heela in the Baltic, and tossed it overboard before it burst.
Even in that heroic band, now 1,354 strong, some were still more heroic than others....
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