Mark of the Lion

Author: Kenneth Leslie Sandford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
New Zealand's greatest war hero, Charles Upham, was one of the few people to have won the Victoria Cross twice. During World War II, he was in Crete, then North Africa and later a prisoner of war in Colditz. His legendary exploits, his acumen as a soldier and his classically understated Kiwi mannerisms have endeared him to all New Zealanders.

Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar

Author: Kenneth Sandford
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742287026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II. A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed enemy machinegun posts single-handed and led a frontal assault on enemy guns. His exploits and individual heroism are the stuff of Kiwi legend. He then spent the rest of the war in prisoner-of-war camps, including the famous Colditz Castle, where he made life a misery for the German guards, constantly trying to escape. This bestselling book was first published by Hutchinson in Britain in 1962 and reprinted many times. It has become a classic. In a new Afterword written for this edition, Bruce Wallace, author of Battle of the Titans, describes Upham's life following the war until his death in 1994. Also available as an eBook

Mark of the Lion

Author: Kenneth Sandford
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 9780091727314
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Searching for Charlie

Author: Tom Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781988516608
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
"Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more.The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has intrigued and fascinated Tom Scott ever since he read about Charles Upham as a schoolboy. Searching for Charlie is his epic quest to unravel the real Charles Upham."--Provided by publisher.

Mark of the Lion

Author: Kenneth Leslie Sandford
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780143018643
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Supplying Washington's Army

Author: Erna Risch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description

Dirty Politics Dirty Times

Author: Michael Ashcroft
Publisher: Politico's Media
ISBN: 9781904734154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
In the summer of 1999, Michael Ashcroft (now Lord Ashcroft) became the subject of concerted attacks aimed at unseating him as Treasurer of the Conservative Party. This text sheds new light on the extraordinary life of an essentially private man.

Mommy's Little Girl

Author: Susie Bright
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560255512
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
The author--one of the harbingers of the sexual revolution--shares her thoughts on a variety of culturally risque topics in twelve essays she has written since her now twelve-year-old daughter was born, including her thoughts on the over-sexualization of girls and her role as lesbian consultant to The Matrix. Original.

Rambles in Rome

Author: Samuel Russell Forbes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description

Archaeology at the Millennium

Author: Gary M. Feinman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 038772611X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512

Book Description
In this book an internationally distinguished roster of contributors considers the state of the art of the discipline of archaeology at the turn of the 21st century and charts an ambitious agenda for the future. The chapters address a wide range of topics including, paradigms, practice, and relevance of the discipline; paleoanthropology; fully modern humans; holocene hunter-gatherers; the transition to food and craft production; social inequality; warfare; state and empire formation; and the uneasy relationship between classical and anthropological archaeology.