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Courage : Eight Portraits by John Brown Gordon is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Courage : Eight Portraits about?
What is it that makes some men and women take difficult decisions and do the right thing against the odds when easier and far less dangerous alternatives are open to them? Why is it that some people - like the undercover military heroes working for SOE in Occupied France or the passengers of the United 93 flight on 9/11 - have the courage to dare?<br>To answer these questions, Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures. Starting with Edith Cavell, who nursed t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Brown Gordon
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC : [distributor] Macmillan Distribution (MDL)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780747565321
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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