The Victoria Cross (VC), awarded to the most courageous and determined servicemen, is the highest military decoration that can be bestowed. This title presents first-hand accounts of soldiers, sailors and airmen describing the incredible events that earned these extraordinary men the VC in the last century.
A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and a former Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, Roderick Bailey is a historian attached to the Imperial War Museum. He is the author of Forgotten Voices of D-Day, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War, which was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and the acclaimed The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle.
