Ebook: Bravest: Australia's greatest war heroes and how they won their medals

Introduction: Shades of valour; 1 'One miserable scribbler' and a little bit of ribbon; 2 'A matter of chance'; 3 Bullets 'thick as hail'; 4 'I begin to hate the damned country where I was born'; 5 'An ardent Australian patriot'; 6 'I managed to get the buggers, Sir'; 7 'The bravest man in the Aussie Army'; 8 'Tell Dad I'm still fighting'; 9 'A compelling, ubiquitous figure'; 10 An ideal leader; 11 'I wasn't mad'; 12 'Hit with a sledge hammer'; 13 A paradoxical attitude to heroes; 14 'To live and learn and see much'; 15 Cross purposes; 16 Down to the wire; 17 The endless day.;From the Boer War to the war in Vietnam, Bravest tells the story of 15 Australian war heroes and how they won the highest medals awarded for bravery.