Lord Ashcroft, who has built the world’s biggest collection of VCs, here tells the stories of some 150 of his heroes from the Crimea to today’s war in Iraq.

Businessman and Tory party Deputy Chairman Lord Michael Ashcroft has a consuming interest in the courage that won recipients the supreme award for valour in war - the Victoria Cross. He has built up the largest collection of VCs in the world and in this book explains his passionate admiration for his heroes by telling the stories of the bravest of the brave. Ashcroft’s VCs date from the CrImean War - when the medal was introduced ‘for most conspicuous bravery or some daring pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy’ in the words of Queen Victoria as she instituted the medal that bears her name. From the 1,355 recipients of the medal Ashcroft has chosen to tell some 150 of their stories - including those of John Chard, one of the 14 Vcs won in the heroic defence of Rorke’s Drift against the Zulus; Noel Chavasse who won two VCs in the Great War for twice saving wounded men under fire ( sadly the latter sacrifice cost Chavasse his own life); and of Charles Upham who survived severe wounds to win two VCs in World War Two. These are stories to inspire and lift the heart - the proud tales of what Prince Charles calls ‘This most democratic and historic medal’.

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Product Code:	10383
Author:	Michael Ashcroft ( Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales).
Format:	392pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £20
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