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A few years ago, Kevin Brazier published The Complete Victoria Cross (Brazier, 2010) (RR 2010/344) and he has now completed a companion volume devoted to the highest British award for civilian gallantry (still also available in some Commonwealth countries). Its history is rather more complex than that of the VC King George VI instituted it in September 1940 to recognise the many deeds of bravery being carried out by civilians, and by military personnel not in the presence of the enemy, during the second world war (the first in which the burden fell so heavily on the...
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