Download or read book VCs Handbook written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. A companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to 1918 in alphabetical order.