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VCs of the First World War: Cambrai 1917 (Paperback)
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VCs of the First World War: Cambrai 1917 (Paperback)
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List price R319
Loot Price R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
You Save R55 (17%)
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Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the
story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion
when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so
successful that church bells in Britain were rung in anticipation
of a great victory. A tank crewman numbers among the recipients of
the VC. Containing biographies of a broad cross-section of men from
Britain and the Dominions including Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and even the Ukraine. It includes a sapper, a former miner, who
chose to stay with his seriously wounded colleague underground and
die with him, rather than obey an order to leave him and save his
own life; a maverick lieutenant-colonel who was relieved of his
command and a padre who worked tirelessly over a period of three
nights bringing at least twenty-five men to safety from No Man's
Land, who otherwise would have been left to die.
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