VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918
- VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918
"VCs of the First World War - The Final Days 1918" (ISBN 0-7509-2485-3) is a book by Gerald Gliddon which covers the end of the First World War from the perspective of Victoria Cross winners. It opens with the telling of the Battle of the Canal du Nord by seven Victoria Cross receivers, the battle led to the conquest of Cambrai by the Allied Powers. The book covers the remaining six weeks of the war in which 56 people received the Victoria Cross, chronologically telling their story.
It is a book of 224 pages and was published by Sutton Publishing on 23 November, 2000. This is the final in the series of books entitled "VCs of the First World War".
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