"Stories of desperate courage and hard-won victory"--Cover.
Content Note
Introduction/ Mike Ashley -- Foreward/ Bernard Cornwell -- The first conflict/ Richard Howard -- Spiking the guns/ C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne -- How the redoubt was taken/ Prosper Merimee -- The Duel/ Joseph Conrad -- Gallant's gamble/ Charles Partington -- "Every man a king"/ Clayton Emery -- Zodomirsky's duel/ Alexandre Dumas -- High and mighty/ Tim Lebbon -- Perdita's war/ Daphne Wright -- The crossroads at Churubusco/ John T. Aquino -- Damned ranker/ Paul Finch -- The Calvary charge/ Peter T. Garratt -- Vengeance/ Pamela Brooks -- The sharpshooter/ Garry Douglas -- The fallen plume/ Tom Holt -- The man who saw/ Talbot Mundy -- Flashman besieged/ George MacDonald Fraser -- The private history of a campaign that failed/ Mark Twain -- The little regiment/ Stephen Crane -- Mercy at Gettysburg/ John Jakes -- From a soldier's wife/ Bella Spencer -- One of the missing/ Ambrose Bierce -- The storming of the fort/ Walter Wood -- Loved I not honour more/ Amy Myers -- For valour/ L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax -- Sphinx/ Clotilde Graves -- Appendix: stories of the Victoria Cross.