Of Living Valour

For the first time a modern British historian tells the story of the against-the-odds triumph through the accounts of the regimental officers and soldiers whose bravery and resolution achieved victory. The author has used many unpublished sources, letters and diaries of ordinary British soldiers, in the vein of Stephen Ambrose’s highly successful Band of Brothers.

With a concise, fast-moving account covering, ex-Commander of the British Army Barney White-Spunner tells the story throug…