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In the 17 years since "The Daily Telegraph started to take I its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1, 000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found hem, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience. They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, ...

This book is the companion to two earlier volumes celebrating soldiers and airmen. It contains one hundred biographies which were published in The Daily Telegraph during the past eighteen years, but have never before appeared in book form. Within these pages can be found men of the Navy, Marines and Fleet Air Arm, as well as the merchant fleet. They include such heroes as the Atlantic convoy commander Peter Gretton and the submariner Godfrey P...