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Here are instances of heroic deeds with no immediate witness, or exploits hidden from the public because the truth was politically inconvenient, such as the Scholls' attempt in 1943 to raise their nation's consciousness, suppressed by Hitler's propaganda machine. The Canadian nuclear physicist Dr Louis Slotin's heroism was not revealed to the public - in 1946 'the bomb' was supposed to be fail-safe. A US pilot held out against impossible odds in a clapped-out aircraft in 1941, and a British battalion against an entire army in Korea in 1951. And, in 1916, a sergeant took an 'impregnable fortress' single-handedly.
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Erik Durschmied was born in Vienna in 1930. After the Second World War he emigrated to Canada. A television war correspondent for the BBC and CBS, Durschmied covered every major crisis, from Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Belfast, Beirut, Chile, to Cuba and Afghanistan. Winner of numerous awards, Newsweek wrote 'Durschmied is a supremely gifted reporter who has transformed the media he works in.' And in Le Monde: 'He's survived more battles than any living general.' Erik has just been appointed Professor of Military History at The Military Academy of Austria. He lives in Paris and Provence with his family.
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1843952157
- ISBN 13 9781843952152
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages592
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