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Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two (Hardcover)

by Gordon Brown (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (3 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747596077
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747596073
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 376,778 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`Under Dr Brown's cosmetic care, the features of wartime heroism glow with an unearthly sheen.'
--Independent


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In these ten stories of Second World War battlefield action, Gordon Brown pays tribute to the courage of a whole generation. Some are stories of decisive action taken in searing heat of combat. On D-Day Company Sergeant Major Hollis of the Green Howards VC stormed a pill-box alone, overcoming its defenders and thus paving the way for a crucial advance to higher ground, while Sergeant Hannah VC, single-handedly fought a fire in a bomber returning from a raid on invasion barges at Antwerp in 1940, as machine-gun ammunition exploded all around him, thus saving the aircraft and its remaining crew. Others are stories of great danger faced again and again. Over many months Graham Hayes and Geoffrey Appleyard of the Small Scale Raiding Force, carried out daring and innovative actions on enemy shipping in Africa and then the Normandy coast, while John Bridge, a physics teacher turned mine and bomb disposal officer, repeatedly practised his carefully acquired skills and knowledge in the most terrifying circumstances from 1940 to 1945, defusing bomb after bomb, mine after mine, always aware that there were no second chances if things went wrong. Perhaps the most daunting and mysterious form of courage he encountered in working on this book was the kind that sustained individuals working on their own on clandestine operations far behind enemy lines. Major Hugh Seagrim GC, in occupied Burma and Violette Szabo in occupied France are only two of such stories of sang-froid and sheer guts.

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59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Spare us, 30 Aug 2009
By J. A. Davenport - See all my reviews
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"Wartime courage"? Interesting topic from the man who sent our soldiers to fight in Afghanistan without the equipment they need to do the job. Then again, courage per se is an interesting topic for a man who hasn't got the guts to call an election.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Oxymoron (Gordon Brown and Courage, what a joke), 31 Aug 2009
By N. Hughes - See all my reviews
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ZERO Stars!

Here's another book on courage from our (ahem) beloved dear leader who knows so much about the subject (pass the bucket). Good job everything with the country is tickety-boo so that Moron Brown can spend his time writing this drivel and probably wish he could buy himself some of the self same courage with taxpayers money.

Save your money or buy Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arther which has the writings of people with real courage.Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Awful book by an awful man, 31 Aug 2009
By Mr. T. G. Rossetti (Washington, DC, USA) - See all my reviews
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I suspect that most people who have written reviews of this book haven't actually read it and I have to admit I haven't either. In normal circumstances, I would feel bad in passing judgment on a book I haven't even perused... but not in this case. This is a truly awful, totally unnecessary book by the worst British Prime Minister of modern times. Tony Blair is now peace enjoy to the Middle East and Gordon Brown has written a book about "courage'. Whatever next? Lembit Öpik to write a book on the importance of long-term relationships? Dreadful, truly dreadful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Readable Account Of Brave Men And Women
This is a great readable account of unbelievably brave men and women in World War 2 who against enormous odds showed outstanding courage, and passion for the principles of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mellowed Heart

1.0 out of 5 stars An Expose of the Sport of Knitting.
I was surprised that this volume has come out on the back of the previous failure. How can a man so besoted with hardwork and a loving family have the time to be the Prime... Read more
Published 2 months ago by PDS

1.0 out of 5 stars Ghastly plagarism
THis book is nothing but the most ghastly form of plagarism. The subject and the men involved have been written about by others far more qualified to comment than a failed Prime... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. A. Brady

1.0 out of 5 stars What a BAG-O-CHITE !
Apparantly he has a sequel coming out next month titles "SPINELESS LYING TWATS OF MODERN DAY".

Its basically a biography of the worst prime mentalist this country has... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Broken Society

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad beyond words
Yes I have read it. And it is dire.

Factually correct but written by somebody who simply has no feel for the subject matter and resorts to breathless prose and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Questionable Shredder

1.0 out of 5 stars Shocking, the nerve of the man...
This book is a disgrace,

Gordon Brown is the most incompetent and inept politician of modern times. Read more
Published 2 months ago by N. S. Macdonald

1.0 out of 5 stars Hard Choice
As a A-Level politics student I was very tempted to buy this as an aide to my studies. It was either this or 'How we can all win from racial diversity' by Adolf Hitler; or 'The... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Random Task

1.0 out of 5 stars not fit for purpose
This book refused to stay on the nail in the smallest room, despite repeated attempts to keep it there. Read more
Published 2 months ago by N. Papworth

1.0 out of 5 stars What does this fool know about courage?
well, what does he know?

Answer - absolutely bugger all, so it was ghost-written (badly) for him.
Published 2 months ago by K. Cruickshanks

2.0 out of 5 stars What are 'Ordinary People' in wartime ?
The notion that trained soldiers are 'ordinary people' is fatuous; or that Violette Szabo was "ordinary" after being trained in SOE unless of course Brown wishes to make the point... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Black Prince

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