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Index
Cover
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Contents
Introduction Jon E. Lewis
The Spartans at Thermopylae, Charlotte Yonge
Let’s Roll, Toby Harnden
The Habit and Virtue of Courage, Aristotle
The Face of Courage, M.R.D. Foot
The Heroine of the Playground, Maurice Weaver
The Front of the Bus, Kai Friese
Hero Worship, Thomas Carlyle
The Darlings of the Life-Boats, E. Cobham Brewer
Lieutenant Philip Curtis Wins the Victoria Cross, Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Daniel in the Lions’ Den, The Bible
The Charge of the Light Brigade, F.E. Whitton
The Candle That Shall Never be Put Out, John Foxe
Bomb Disposal, Anonymous
Cobbett in the Dock, William Cobbett
The Lady of the Lamp, Cecil Woodham K. Smith
Bill Neate Versus the Gas-Man, William Hazlitt
The Man Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Tom Wolfe
His Soul Goes Marching On, E.G. Ogan
Horatius at the Bridge, Livy
David and Goliath, The Bible
No Surrender, Lady Constance Lytton
Henry V’s Speech at Agincourt, William Shakespeare
The Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, William Grattan
The Boy V.C., Alistair Maclean
The Daunt Rock Lightship, Patrick Howarth
The Evacuation of Kham-Duc, Philip Chinnery
Obituary: Digby Tatham-Warter, The Daily Telegraph
George Washington and the Cherry Tree, J. Berg Esenwein, Marietta Stockard, William J. Bennett
Britain is a Land of Unsung Heroes, Robert Hardman
The Spirit of St Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh
The Hero as Priest, Thomas Carlyle
Rorke’s Drift, F.E. Whitton
Spreading the Word, John Wesley
The Heroes of Eyam, Paul Chadburn
Facing the End, R.F. Scott
Man-Eater, Colonel Jim Corbett
Dolley Madison Rescues the National Treasure, Dolley Madison
On Trial, Lillian Hellman
The Show Must Go On, Giles Playfair
Heckling Nixon, Ron Kovic
Sir Walter Scott and his Creditors, Sir Walter Scott
The Blocking of Zeebrugge, Sir Archibald Hurd
Zola and the Dreyfus Case, Frederick Laws
“J’accuse”, Emile Zola
Moral Fibre in Bomber Command, Max Hastings
Mission to Leipzig, Bert Stiles
The Death of Socrates, Plato
The Crucifixion of Christ, The Bible
The Boat Journey, Ernest Shackleton
The General Says “Nuts”, Russell F, Weighley
Alone, Douglas Mawson
Satyagraha, Web Miller
The Big Hitter, Bob Considine
The Trials of Galileo, John Hall
Obituary: Bill Reid, V.C., The Times
The Miracle of the Jacal, Bill O’Neal
Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller, Lorena A. Hickok
Tiananmen Square, Anonymous student
Prisoner of Islamic Jihad, John McCarthy
And Remember the Alamo, Jon E. Lewis
Swimming Niagara, E.J. Trelawny
Boudicca’s Battle Cry, Tacitus
A Yankee Antique, Walt Whitman
Man Could Not Do Much More, Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Heroism, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Death of Adolfo Rodriguez, Richard Harding Davis
Sir Thomas More Upon the Scaffold, Anonymous
The Great Escaper, Tom Moulson
Omdurman, Winston S. Churchill
Spartacus, James Chambers
Ordinary Heroes, Richard Jerome, Susan Schindette, Nick Charles and Thomas Fields-Meyer
Acknowledgments and Sources
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