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Deeds of heroism and bravery : The book of heroes and personal daring
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Deeds of Heroism and Bravery: The Book of Heroes and Personal Daring is a compelling anthology that weaves together tales of valor and courage from various cultures and epochs. The book employs an evocative literary style, combining rich descriptive language with poignant narratives that celebrate the indomitable human spirit. Each story intricately details the trials faced by individuals who, against overwhelming odds, demonstrated extraordinary bravery and heroism, thereby offering readers a glimpse into the essence of courage that transcends mere physical prowess. The authors of this anthology represent a diverse chorus of voices, each bringing their unique perspectives shaped by personal experiences and cultural influences. Their collective passion for storytelling and dedication to illustrating the profound impact of bravery in the human experience is evident in the anthology's meticulous curation. Drawing from folklore, historical accounts, and contemporary examples, these writers illuminate the archetype of the hero and the significance of daring deeds in both personal and communal narratives across time. For readers seeking inspiration, personal growth, or a deeper understanding of human resilience, "Deeds of Heroism and Bravery" is an essential read. It not only entertains but also imparts wisdom about the virtue of courage, encouraging individuals to reflect on their own potential for heroism in everyday life.
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length22 hrs 48 mins
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Publish dateApr 24, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
204A WREATH FOR HIS VICTIM
2THE SOLDIER
205The Brief but Greatly Achieving Career of Lieut. Frank Luke, Jr.—His Mysterious End
3Eye-witness Account of the Belleau Wood Action in the Marne Salient Beginning June 6th, 1918
206HIS FIRST EXPLOIT
4IN THE AMERICAN WAY
207DOWNED THREE BALLOONS IN ONE DAY
5FACING THE MYSTERY
208HIS END A MYSTERY
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6A BULLET THROUGH THE LUNG
209The Formidable Odds Against Which a Young English Pilot Daringly Battled, Only to Fall 14,000 Feet Into the Sea
7AS SIBLEY’S MEN ADVANCED
210It Was a Problem of Mud That Turned Trooper Bishop Into an “Ace” of the Royal Flying Corps
8THE RIGHT QUALITIES THERE
211KEEPING UP WITH THE FORMATION
9IN THE BELLEAU WOOD
212THE GERMAN “FLYING PIG”
10THE TAKING OF BOURESCHES
213HOW HE WON THE MILITARY CROSS
11GERMAN TREACHERY
214“SUDDENLY MY ENGINE HAD FAILED”
12And Captain Grenfell’s Cavalry Troops Lived Over “the Charge of the Light Brigade”
215A MIRACULOUS RECOVERY
13“INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH”
216“LIKE SHOOTING CLAY PIGEONS”
14GRENFELL RESCUES THE GUNS
217A German Aviator’s Perils and Escapes On An Observation Tour
15The Church Elder and Champion Turkey-Shooter Who Killed 25 Germans and Captured a Machine Gun Battalion
218OBSERVING THE RETREAT OF THE BRITISH
16EARLY INTO ACTION
219THE “CONQUEROR” AT PARIS
17“ALL THE TIME I WAS A-USING MY RIFLE”
220THE RETURN FROM PARIS
18“I WHIPPED OUT MY AUTOMATIC”
221The Brilliant Exploit That Marked the First “Down” of a “Zepp” by Airplane
19PROMOTED AND DECORATED
222Three Attacking Hun Machines Downed by “Ricky” in About Seventy Ticks
20“I FEEL A HEAP STRONGER SPIRITUALLY”
223FOLLOWING THE CHANCE
21A Vision of Inferno from which Even a Dante Would Have Shrunk——“What Hell Must Be Like”
224“DANGEROUS IF NOT DESPERATE
22A Bomb Thrower and Tank Master Who “Paid His Way in Huns”
225CLEVER WORK
23LIVING NINE PINS
226MAKING A CLEAN JOB
24“PAID HIS WAY IN HUNS”
227That’s All That Observation Pilot Miller Cared About When the End Came
25A GO WITH A TANK
228IN SPITE OF WOUNDS
26SOMETHING OF A MYTH
229MILLER’S RALLYING FEAT
27Its Wonderful Story Will Stand as One of the Vital Things of the War
230When Captain Butt, the British Ace, Found Bakshish a Cure of Captivity
28JUST BEFORE GOING INTO ACTION
231IN JAIL AT NAZARETH
29OVER THE TOP AT DOUBLE-QUICK
232A STOWAWAY ON A “HELL SHIP”
30STEADILY ON ACROSS A WALL OF FIRE
233In An Ordinary Plane Aviator Bone Chased a German Sea-Plane Over Sea
31DARE-DEVIL FIGHTERS FROM THE PARIS SLUMS
234BROUGHT HIM DOWN
32The Conversion of the Rev. J. H. Clifford, “Y” Worker, into A Hero Among Marines
235Four Sons of a Famous Fighter Gather Their Own Laurels of War
33SO THEY MADE HIM A MARINE
236ARCHIE GOES TO FRANCE
34IN THE THICK OF IT AT BELLEAU WOOD
237THEODORE, THE IDOL OF HIS MEN
35Thro’ Turkish Shells and Barbed-Wired Sea They Landed at Gallipoli
238KERMIT IN MESOPOTAMIA AND FRANCE
36THE GREAT ADVENTURE BEGINS
239QUENTIN
37CAUGHT IN BARBED-WIRE NETS
240HE MAKES A DOWN
38GOT THERE ANY OLD WAY
241MEETING THE ENEMY
39SOME WOULDN’T “DIG IN”
242ALL BUT QUENTIN RETURNED
40THE KIND OF MEN THEY WERE
243GERMANS REPORT DEATH
41UNORTHODOX BUT STANCH
244A Restless Seeker After Excitement, the War Filled the Bill for Lieutenant Roberts
42A California Youth of Heroic Soul Who Gave His Life to England
245“THE HUN WAVED AT ME AND I WAVED AT HIM”
43WARM HEARTED AND FEARLESS
246THE HUN SPINS EARTHWARD
44The First Canadian to Enlist Came Back with Scars of Twenty-two Wounds
247AVIATOR PRICE DOWNS THREE PLANES
45HE RAISES A COMPANY
248Von Richthofen’s Brilliant Career in the Air an Offset to His Failure as a Uhlan
46TAKES A MUD BATH
249HIS FIRST FLIGHT
47A Turk Whose Sense of Humor Made the Tommies His Friends at Gallipoli
250THE BOELCKE CIRCUS
48Though the Reports Are all Too Few Every Doctor Was a Hero
251HIS FIRST VICTIMS
49Captain Bobo and His Buddies Weren’t Good Enough for the Doctors
252BOELCKE’S FINISH
50“THE JOLLY OLD RED CROSS”
253THE WORLD’S GREATEST LAUNCHING
51KNEW HOW TO GET ’EM
254The Remarkable Story of an American Boy in a Seventy-two Days’ Ordeal of Escape from the Germans
52PRETTY GOOD MEN TOO
255AS A FIGHTING SCOUT
53RESCUES A VILLAGE
256CAPTURED BY THE HUN
54A Braw Hieland Laddie’s Impressions of What Happened When “We Were Over the Top Like a Lot of Dogs Let Loose”
257MAKING HIS ESCAPE
55An Episode of the Gallipoli Campaign Typical of the Fighting
258Eddie Rickenbacker, Who Won Popularity as an Auto Racer, Snatched Lasting Glory from the Void.
56He Found the Little Fellows to His Taste But Didn’t Care for Heavies
259CHAGRIN A SAVING GRACE
57GRENADES JUST EGGS
260WITHOUT A RETURN SHOT
58TOO MUCH INGENUITY
261SEVEN TO SEVEN
59SNIFFS AT HUN TANKS
262AS SQUADRON COMMANDER
60“To Be Ready Ever to Fight for the Cause They Think is Right”
263THE GUNBOAT
61A Story of the Trenches by One Who Knew Them at Their Worst
264A Court-Martial in Which Vengeful Malice Mocked Justice and the Rules of Naval War In the Lust of Blood
62AGONIES OF BODY AND MIND
265GERMAN EXULTATION
63BLOWN FROM THE TRENCH
266THE FIRST OFFICER’S REPORT
64FELT SAFEST WHEN ON GUARD
267GERMAN INTELLIGENCE
65NOT SAFE TO HELP THE HUN
268SHIPPED LIKE CATTLE
66NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT
269SIXTEEN BULLETS
67And Faith, Never a Dumas Hero was a Marker to This Sergeant of the Irish Guards
270How Capt. Paul Koenig of the Deutschland Turned Incredible Fiction Into Practical Reality
68CHARGE OF THE “MAD IRISHMAN”
271A WASH, A FEAST AND A NIGHT’S REST ON THE OCEAN BOTTOM
69The Story of the First American Soldiers to Go It Alone in Banging the Huns
272RISING TO THE SURFACE
70IN EVERY AFTER BATTLE
273OUT INTO THE BROAD ATLANTIC
71WINNING MORE FRENCH PRAISE
274A DUMMY SMOKE-STACK
72THE LAST SHOT
275The Dramatic Sinking of Three British Cruisers by U-boat in the Early Days of the War
73Glimpses of the Sunnier Side of the Men Who Played with Death
276EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT BY AN OFFICER OF THE Cressy
74MICKY FREE REVIVED
277“THE SHIP LIFTED, QUIVERING ALL OVER”
75GLAD TO MEET HAIG
278THE OFFICIAL REPORT
76THEY ARE NOT TALKERS
279CAPT. WEDDIGEN’S OWN STORY
77NOT THE HUN TYPE
280THE SHOT WENT STRAIGHT AND TRUE
78DID NOT MERIT MERCY
281THE CRESSY TURNS TURTLE
79SPEAKING TO GOD
282A Nurse’s Graphic Personal Narrative of the Wanton Destruction of the Sussex
80RUNNERS AND M.P.’S
283DEAFENED AND UNABLE TO SPEAK
81Who Made Up the Indian Army; And Some V. C. Heroes
284INTO ONE LIFEBOAT
82THE BROWN MEN
285ALMOST SWAMPED
83WINNERS OF V. C.’s
286THE SUSSEX STILL AFLOAT
84THE JEMADAR
287BACK TO THE SHIP
85STOOD THE BRUNT
288“WHAT IS IT TO DIE?”
86An Ambulance Man’s First Twenty-four Hours at the Front Well Diversified
289“WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST”
87WITNESSES AN AIR DUEL
290THE VALLEYS OF THE BLUE SHROUDS
88So Comrades Named Dick Hall, One of the First of Ours to Die
291An Italian Lieutenant Braves Batteries and Mines and Harbor Wire in Novel Feat
89A MOTHER’S GIFT TO THE CAUSE
292DUMBFOUNDED AUSTRIANS
90FROM DARTMOUTH TO FRANCE
293EDITH CAVELL
91THE TRAVELED ROAD
294An Engagement When Pistol and Cutlass Revived Memories of Notable Sea Fights of the Past
92THE LIVING DEAD
295A HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT ON DECK
93A Christian Priest Who Was a Hero too Found They Vanished at the Front
296One of a Crew That Was Saved Tells of the Thrilling Moments Just Before the Final Plunge
94HIS LEATHERNECKS
297Two Italian Naval Officers Destroy an Austrian Dreadnought in a Novel Way
95A BIT OF A MISTAKE
298PAOLUCCI EXPLORES
96How the Ohio Doughboys Managed to Pick Up a New Nickname in France
299AVOIDS A SENTRY BOAT
97AT THE ZERO HOUR
300NEARING THE SHIP
98NOW THE FINAL EPISODES
301ALL LIGHTED UP
99THEIR LAST OVER
302TAKEN ON BOARD
100And a Right Good Way to Win the V.C. and the Hearts of Men
303FREED AFTER THE ARMISTICE
101TAKES UP HIS FRIEND
304The Impossible Done in Saving Fifty Lives from the Flooded and Sunken Submarine K-13
102Jim Gardener Quit the Trolley to Do His Bit and Did It Thoroughly
305“ONE MORE DIVE”—THEN SUNK
103THAT LITTLE FELLOW ROACH
306HURRYING TO THE RESCUE
104THE MAJOR SAID IT
307TUBES FOR AIR AND FOOD
105“SORT OF SWIMMING-LIKE”
308A JOB THAT CALLED FOR FINESSE
106One Soldier Tells What It Is Like to Have Eyes Shot Out
309INSIDE THE SUNKEN SHIP
107A DASH STRAIGHT AHEAD
310DANGER OF POISONOUS GASES
108Terrible Effect of a Charge of Senegals Upon German Officer’s Sensibilities
311THROUGH THE CONNING-TOWER HATCH—A DARING IDEA
109“LET THEM COME”
312“DIED A MOST GALLANT OFFICER”
110“HELL SEEMED LET LOOSE”
313MORSE CODE CONVERSATIONS
111“WE STILL STAND FIRMLY”
314“THE LIMITS OF HUMAN ENDURANCE”
112A Lone Corporal Captures 31 of the Enemy in a Morning Frolic
315FRESH AIR AT LAST!
113OTHER DOUGHTY CHAPS
316LEAKS IN THE BULKHEAD
114The Singular Confessions of a Hollander Who Gave His Life for France
317TILTING UP THE BOW
115HE GOES TO THE FRONT
318CUTTING A HOLE IN THE SIDE
116THE BOY REGARDED HIM AS A HERO
319“A DEVIL OF A LOT OF WATER”
117HE IS PROMOTED
320SAVED AFTER 54½ HOURS
118“BRAVO, CAPORAL”
321I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH
119Oxford Graduate and Green-Grocer’s Assistant Win Their Spurs in the Same Crisis
322Lieutenant-Commander Holbrook’s Perilous Adventure to Surprise and Blow Up a Warship at the Dardanelles
120FROM CURATE TO SOLDIER
323A COMPASSLESS RETURN
121A DETERMINED BOMBER
324CANADIANS
122TOO MUCH FUSS FOR HIM
325Eye-witness Account of a Duel at Sea between Great Steamers Built for Passenger Traffic
123A New Zealand Soldier with the Qualities of a Fenimore Cooper Hero
326A DISTURBED LUNCHEON
124An Act of Heroism and Martyrdom that Hardly May be Matched
327Vale, CAP TRAFALGAR!
125THE MARTYR HERO
328The Men Who Captained the Merchant Ships Are Among the Heroes of the War
126Though They Had More Than Their Share of Trouble to Get to France
329TURNED TO MINE-SWEEPING
127GAVE THEM BOLOS
330CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES
128One of the Men the British Took to Gallipoli to Show Their Grit
331The German Secret Service System the Scrap Basket of Official Honor
129A SHOVEL TO THE RESCUE
332ITS DIPLOMATIC AIDS
130And in Spite of Regulations and Red Tape the Old Sergeant Got to France and Into the Front Lines
333BAIT FOR INGÉNUES
131ON THE WAY TO FRANCE
334CORRUPTION FUND OF MILLIONS
132BILL ACCEPTED FOR SERVICE
335BOY-ED, A TURKISH HALF-BREED
133One of America’s Young Poets Keeps a Tryst While Fighting for France
336GERMANY’S SECRET ARMY
134A MARCHING ORDEAL
337THE WIRELESS TREACHERIES
135WHEN THE HOUR CAME
338TO INVADE CANADA
136How a Handful of Russian “Madmen” Held the Fort Until They Were Wiped Out
339MANUFACTURING PASSPORTS
137A Lieutenant of the Royal Irish Fusiliers That Stormed Ginchy Paints War’s Horrors in Vivid Language
340NABBED AT SEA
138A DANGEROUS RECONNAISSANCE
341A SENSATIONAL CAPTURE
139“OVER THE TOP”
342MORE BERNSTORFF CRAFT
140A CHARGE BY THE IRISH
343LANSING’S REVELATION
141THE MENTAL SIDE OF FIGHTING
344THE BOLO PASHA FOLLY
142“IT WAS HELL LET LOOSE”
345BERNSTORFF THE MASTER MIND
143ONLY TWO OFFICERS LEFT
346A CONTINUING EVIL
144SCENES AMONG PRISONERS
347ORGANIZED PROPAGANDA
145FORGETTING ENMITY
348PAUL KOENIG, THE ATLAS LINE’S MAN
146How the Scotch Snipers Fortified Themselves Against a German Attack at Dawn
349A SUPERSUBTLE KNAVE
147Sergeant McClintock Was Brave Enough to Confess War Has Its Scare
350A Dozen Were Shot, Hundreds Were Imprisoned, But “Cherished Spies” Were Allowed To Go Free Because Their Work Was So Bad.
148A COMFORTING STAFF OFFICER
351ONLY A DOZEN SHOT
149THE AGONY OF WAITING
352AMERICA’S HIGH-CLASS SPIES
150ALMOST CALM
353A Traitor of Belgium Posing as an Allied Soldier Served the Germans
151FIRE CURTAINS
354EDITH CAVELL
152THE SAME TO YOU
355It Did Not Wait for Winds to Swing Its Arms for German Guidance
153KNICKERBOCKER WAITER
356He Planned to End the War by Slaying Its Instigator and Failing—Died
154A Rampageous, Self-Willed Old Thing Fondly Remembered by Her Non-Commander
357“THE BEST LAID PLANS”
155SHE GOES INTO ACTION
358FACED DEATH A HERO
156SHE DEFIES CONTROL
359The Popular Dutch Dancer Who Played the Rôle of German Spy to Her Cost
157Though Exempt by Age the Love Art Deepened Bade Him Fight for France
360SHE ACQUIRES A DRAGON
158WOULD NOT REMAIN BEHIND
361AGAIN THE DEPUTY
159AN OFFICER’S OBLIGATION
362Scion of a Noble Prussian Family Who Failed to Deliver the Goods
160WHY THE NIGHT SO LONG
363NOT A NONDESCRIPT
161FOR THE LAST LOOK
364HOBO TO MILLIONAIRE
162The English Nurse Whose Tragic Heroism and Secret Execution Made Germany’s Defeat More Certain
365PLAYS THE GAME WELL
163HER DUTY TO HER COUNTRY
366SHY ON DIVIDENDS
164MISS CAVELL A PRISONER
367THE WIND-UP
165THE GERMAN WAY
368One of Von Papen’s Dynamiters More Conscientious than His Chief
166SENTENCED TO DEATH
369THE EXPLOSION
167WHITLOCK ATTEMPTS TO SAVE HER
370A Ruthless Tool of German Duplicity Fails Only Because He Trusted the Wrong Man with His Secret
168THE LAST PLEA FAILS
371A PLOT HATCHED IN GERMANY
169THERE COULD BE NO APPEAL
372A SHAM GARAGE
170EDITH CAVELL’S LAST HOURS
373THE ROAD TO BETRAYAL
171VON BISSING’S DEFENSE
374POTASH TOO WEAK
172The Story of Marcelle Semmer, Who Held Up the Advance of a German Army Corps
375TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
173TWICE SAVED FROM THE GERMANS
376EXPLAINED TOO MUCH
174Russian Women Who Gave Splendid Proof That Soldierly Valor Knows No Sex
377PERFECTED DEVILRY
175MARRIED AN UNKNOWN
378WHAT FAY PICTURED
176RAISES HER BATTALION
379It Is Probable that His Record is Unique in the Annals of War Since Spartan Days
177THEIR FIRST ENGAGEMENT
380HIS HOME HONORS
178An English Woman’s Contribution Was Her Fortune and the Daily Risk of Her Life
381Driving His Automobile over a Shell-Swept Road a French Lad Braved Death to Deliver the Dead
179AN IMPLACABLE BREED
382The Story of Col. U. G. McAlexander and the Heroic 38th Infantry, Defender’s of the Surmelin Valley, the “Gateway to Paris”
180TOO BUSY TO REFUSE HER
383FOOTNOTES:
181The Type of Woman from Which Fate Fashions Jeannes D’Arc
384The 78 Soldiers Who Won the Congressional Medal of Honor for an Act of Supreme Courage
182SWORD IN HAND, SHE LED THE ATTACK
3851ST DIVISION
183This Young Englishwoman Risked Death in a Hideous Form to Save the Lives of Others
3862ND DIVISION
184Raoul Lufbery, the Connecticut Boy Who Roamed the World to Die a Hero in France
3873RD DIVISION
185THE PRICE OF A JOB
3885TH DIVISION
186JOINS THE FOREIGN LEGION
38926TH DIVISION
187ATTACKS A MASTER OF HIS ART
39027TH DIVISION
188“POOR COUCOU”
39128TH DIVISION
189THE LAST FLIGHT
39229TH DIVISION
190An Air Squadron Made Famous by American Youth Before America Entered the War
39330TH DIVISION
191HOW CHAPMAN FOUGHT
39431ST DIVISION
192THE FIRST OF THEM TO DIE
39533RD DIVISION
193JIM’S TURN CAME
39635TH DIVISION
194The Place in Fame to Which the French Assign Their Miracle “Ace”
39736TH DIVISION
195A SMALL BEGINNING
39842ND DIVISION
196MIRACULOUS ESCAPES
39977TH DIVISION
197WON WITHOUT ARMS
40078TH DIVISION
198THE FLIGHT INTO THE UNKNOWN
40182ND DIVISION
199A Distinguished Service on the Battle Front for Which No Honors Provision Has Been Made
40289TH DIVISION
200THE UNIDENTIFIED
40391ST DIVISION
201A LAST AUTOGRAPH
40493RD DIVISION
202The Guns of Both Armies Suspend Fire as Captains Ball and Immelman Fight in Air
405TANK CORPS
203CHEERS FROM OPPOSING TRENCHES