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Our Bravest and Our Best: The Stories of Canada’s Victoria Cross Winners
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Between 1854 and 1945 more Canadians per capita were awarded the Victoria Cross than members of any other Commonwealth country. In all, ninety-five Canadians won the British Commonwealth’s highest honour for valour in combat.
Our Bravest and Our Best presents the memorable and inspiring stories of these men who were willing to lay down their lives for our freedom. Their courageous actions set them apart as the “bravest and best ” examples of Canadian heroism.
Arthur Bishop, son of legendary World War I flying ace and Victoria Cross winner “Billy” Bishop, vividly describes the heroic actions which won each VC winner his medal. He sets the battlefield heroics within the larger picture of the war or campaign involved and follows the later lives and career of each winner.
Our Bravest and Our Best also covers what happened to the medals themselves-some were stored away, others were simply lost,and another found it’s way into a pawn shop. In one case, a VC was stolen right out of a recipient’s coffin never to be retrieved! Many medals are now on display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and various other war museums across the country.
Ranging from the Indian Mutiny to the Battle of Ypres and the Somme, from Vimy Ridge to the raid on Dieppe, Our Bravest and Our Best details some of the most colourful and stirring moments in Canadian military history.
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| Weight | 0.635 kg |
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| Dimensions | 24.5 × 16.2 × 2.70 cm |
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