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*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Originally published in 1916 in fortnightly editions, then published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages in total, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<ref name=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered. Contain many specially commissioned illustrations- some [https://www.military-prints.com/great_war1.htm samples]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.
:Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume II] of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book.
:Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226 and in a reprint edition<ref name=DTE/>, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browsepublication/1985/hte6ho_3Wf5ecMDWz uk-wwi-stories-of-heroism-1914-1918 ''British UK, WWI , Stories of Heroism, 1914-1918''] (located in International/scroll down to letter BU). :Also 4 of the 5 volume editions, being Volumes I, II, III and V are available for free, provided you register, on the otherwise pay website forces-war-records.co.uk in the [https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/documents/search?searchQuery=D&page=2 Historic Document Library] 4 of the 5 volume editions. Select Browse and Type "Other", being Volumes I, II, III and Vthen scroll down to letter D.
*[https://archive.org/details/postofhonour00wils/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post of Honour : Stories of Daring Deeds done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War''] by Richard Wilson 1917. Archive.org. The Author’s Note suggests the book was written for school children.
*[https://archive.org/details/wonderfulstories00newy/page/n9/mode/2up ''Wonderful Stories. Winning the V. C. in the Great War''] catalogued 1918. Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t5n87rf69?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTust Digital Library version] with rotatable pages.
