|
|
Article: Obituary: David Harvey.(Comment)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
HIS own bravery was a different sort to that of the men whose lives he researched for his two volume book on military courage,but it was no less keen or real.
And the eccentric ways of this tall,elegant Englishman, who also dug graves and taught Americans to ride in the British style, drew him to the attention of TV's roving reporter Alan Whicker. He featured him in an episode of Whicker's New World in the 1980s.
But the grand achievement of David Harvey was publishing his Monuments to Courage in 1999, which included the details of 1,300 recipients of theVictoria Cross.
In his extensive travels, Harvey discovered that at least 77 of them had ...