THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HEROES

New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xv) 496 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; some darkening around the edges of the text block. This anthology contains: The Spartans at Thermopylae by Charlotte Yonge; Let's Roll by Toby Harnden; The Habit and Virtue of Courage by Artistotle; The Face of Courage by M. R. D. Foot; The Heroine of the Playground by Maurice Weaver; The Front of the Bus by Kai Friese; Hero Worship by Thomas Carlyle; The Darlings of the Life Boats by E. Cobham Brewer; Lieutenant Philip Curtis Wins the Victoria Cross by Anthony Farrar-Hockley; Daniel in the Lions' Den from The Bible; The Charge of the Light Brigade by F. E. Whitton; The Candle That Shall Never Be Put Out by John Foxe; Bomb Disposal - Anonymous; Cobbett in the Dock by William Cobbett; The Lady of the Lamp by Cecil Woodham K. Smith; Bill Neate Versus the Gas Man by William Hazlitt; The Man Who Broke the Sound Barrier by Tom Wolfe; His Soul Goes Marching On by E. G. Ogan; Horatius at the Bridge by Livy; David and Goliath from The Bible; No Surrender by Lady Constance Lytton; Henry V's Speech at Agincourt by William Shakespeare; The Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo by William Gratton; The Boy V.C. by Alistair Maclean; The Daunt Rock Lightship by Patrick Howarth; The Evacuation of Kham Duc by Philip Chinnery; Obituary: Digby Tatham-Warter from The Daily Telegraph; George Washington and the Cherry Tree by J. Berg Esenwein, Marietta Stockard and William J. Bennett; Britain is a Land of Unsung Heroes by Robert Hardman; The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh; The Hero as Priest by Thomas Carlyle; Rorke's Drift by F. E. Whitton; Spreading the Word by John Wesley; The Heroes of Eyam by Paul Chadburn; Facing the End by R. F. Scott; Man Eater by Colonel Jim Corbett; Dolley (Dolly) Madison Rescues the National Treasure by Dolley Madison; On Trial by Lillian Hellman; The Show Must Go On by Giles Playfair; Heckling Nixon by Ron Kovic; Sir Walter Scott and His Creditors by Sir Walter Scott; The Blocking of Zeebrugge by Sir Archibald Hurd; Zola and the Dreyfus Case by Frederick Laws; J'Accuse by Emile Zola; Moral Fibre in the Bomber Command by Max Hastings; Mission to Leipzig by Bert Stiles; The Death of Socrates by Plato; The Crucifixion of Christ from The Bible; The Boat Journey by Ernest Shackleton; The General Says Nuts by Russell F. Weighley; Alone by Douglas Mawson; Satyagraha by Web Miller; The Big Hitter by Bob Considine; The Trials of Galileo by John Hall; Obituary: Bill Reid V.C. from The Times; The Miracle of the Jacal by Bill O'Neal; Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller by Lorena A Hickok; Tiananmen Square - Anonymous student; Prisoner of Islamic Jihad by John McCarthy; And Remember the Alamo by Jon E. Lewis; Swimming Niagara by E. J. Trelawny; Boudicca's Battle Cry - Tacitus; A Yankee Antique by Walt Whitman; Man Could Not Do Much More by Geoffrey Winthrop Young; Heroism by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Death of Adolfo Rodriguez by Richard Harding Davis; Sir Thomas More Upon the Scaffold - Anonymous; The Great Escaper by Tom Moulson; Omdurman by Winston S. Churchill; Spartacus by James Chambers; and Ordinary Heroes by Richard Jerome, Susan Schindette, Nick Charles and Thomas Fields-Meyer..