For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross
Author: Aaron Pegram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 **2019 Nib Military History Prize Finalist** For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 2013, heroic actions in the Boer War appear alongside those from the First World War,...