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|aAwarded for valour|h[electronic resource] :|ba history of the Victoria Cross and the evolution of British heroism /|cMelvin Charles Smith.
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|aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;|aNew York :|bPalgraveMacmillan,|c2008.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009).|nAccess may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aThe Victoria Cross: the highest standard of valour. The exploits of its winners are the stuffof legend. But why was it instituted? What factors came together during the Crimean War to create this award? Since its inception 1,356 have been awarded, but the circumstances of warfarehave changedwand with them the very concept of heroism has evolved. Awarded for Valour traces the evolution of this concept from its originson the fields before Sevastopol, across the dashing campaigns of imperialexpansion and defence, where the concept of heroism was a curious combination of the romantic andthepragmatic (all held in place with a stiff upper lip) and into the cauldron of the First World War,from which a very different concept of heroism arose.
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|aIntroduction -- I b2 sve Broken My Arm, Dick, But Never Mind Me Now:The Hero in Victorian Popular Mythology -- The Institutionalization ofHeroism in Britain -- Teething Problems, 1856 - 1867 --Big Implications From Small Wars: The Imperial Vision of Heroism, 1860 - 1911 -- Fifty Years On: A Half-Century of Heroism -- 1914: The last Stand of he Thin Red Line -- The Middle Parts of Fortune: Heroism in Evolution, 1915 -1916 -- b1 sCourage Isn b2 st What it Used to be: b2 s Heroism Emerges From the Great War -- The Hero Comes Home From the War: The Institutionalization of Modern Heroism --Conclusion: The New Hero in Action, 1940 - 2006 -- Appendix -- Bibliography.
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