The Victoria Cross – Kobo eBook

Antiques Roadshow medals expert Mark Smith – a former Royal Artillery Museum curator with a lifelong passion for militaria – brings his deep expertise to THE VICTORIA CROSS: A Personal History. The book explores 36 stories of Victoria Cross recipients (including two animal Dickin Medal honourees), each one filtered through Mark’s own personal connection to the story – how he came across it, who he met, what it meant to him. Spanning ten conflicts from the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny through both World Wars to Iraq and Afghanistan, the book captures the human stories behind Britain’s highest award for valour, while also reflecting on how modern warfare’s shift toward drones and remote weapons may be changing what battlefield courage looks like.