Barefoot Soldier | A Story of Extreme Valour (Double Signed + Personal Colour Photographs + Signed Framed Photograph)
Beharry VC, Johnson [Warrant Officer Class 2 Johnson Gideon Beharry, VC, COG (born 26 July 1979) is a British Army soldier who, on 18 March 2005, was awarded the Victoria Cross] with Nick Cook.
(Book #ID 112432)
Published by Sphere An Imprint of Little, Brown and Company Ltd., Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London First Edition 2006. 2006.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, black paper end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Beharry was the first recipient of the Victoria Cross since the posthumous awards to Lieutenant Colonel H. Jones and Sergeant Ian John McKay for service in the Falklands War in 1982. He was the first living recipient of the VC since Keith Payne and Rayene Stewart Simpson, both Australian, for actions in Vietnam in 1969, and the first living recipient of the VC in the British Army since Rambahadur Limbu, a Gurkha, in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation in 1965. At the time of his award, he was one of only ten living recipients of the VC. Contains (x), 370 pp with two maps and colour archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by both authors to the title page ''J. Beharry VC' and 'Nick Cook | 2nd November 2006'. + 12'' x 8'' framed colour photograph of Beharry just after receiving his VC at Buckingham Palace + 11'' x 8'' SIGNED colour photograph of Beharry + 4 x 6'' x 4'' personal colour photographs of Johnson Beharry and Nick Cook at book signing | RNAS Base, Yeovilton, Somerset | 21st November 2006. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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