Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys

Title Page......Page 2
Dedication Page......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 7
Holding out for a hero......Page 14
The Penlee Lifeboatmen......Page 24
A few good men......Page 36
John Paul Jones and the Birth of the US Navy......Page 42
How curiously the course of one’s life may be turned......Page 58
The Demons of Camerone......Page 64
The trouble with the truth......Page 76
The Battle of Isandlwana......Page 82
The heroic age......Page 106
D-Day and the Beach Called Omaha......Page 110
When Britannia ruled the waves......Page 128
The Yangtze Incident......Page 132
The loneliness of command......Page 144
Josiah Harlan, the Man Who Would Be King......Page 150
The luck of the Irish......Page 166
Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition......Page 174
In search of a place in the world......Page 194
The Flight of the Nez Perces......Page 198
First, women and children......Page 212
The Birkenhead Drill......Page 216
For England’s sake and duty......Page 228
The Thin Red Line and the Charge of the Light Brigade......Page 232
We’re following the leader......Page 250
The Battle of Trafalgar......Page 254
A long way from home......Page 272
Moonwalkers and Apollo 13......Page 276
Enemy at the gates......Page 290
Constantinople......Page 294
Old age and guile beat youth and enthusiasm......Page 310
Dien Bien Phu......Page 314
The field of human conflict......Page 326
The Siege of the Alamo......Page 330
Their finest hour......Page 342
Thermopylae......Page 350
For the boy......Page 366
Further Reading......Page 371
Illustration Acknowledgments......Page 375
Acknowledgments......Page 376
Credits......Page 378
Cover......Page 1
Copyright Notice......Page 379
About the Publisher......Page 380