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  Everest, George, 125–26

  Faisal of Saudi Arabia, 226–28, 230–32

  Fasson, Francis Anthony Blair, 318–19

  Fiennes, Ranulph, 26–33

  Filson, John, 52

  Findley, John, 48

  Flight 93, 246–52

  Flint, Timothy, 55

  Flowers, Tommy, 321–22

  Forbes, John, 8–9

  Ford, Henry, 61

  Fox, Charles, 142–44

  Fram, 418–19, 428

  Franklin, Benjamin, 6–7, 13, 15–16, 19, 45, 172

  Fraser, George MacDonald, 34

  French and Indian War, 4–11, 14, 46

  Fryer, John, 326–28, 331–32, 334–35

  Furneaux, Tobias, 111, 112–13

  Gagarin, Yury, 343–45

  Gagnon, Rene, 300, 303–5

  Gallipoli, 58, 268

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 455, 458

  Genet, Edmond, 22–23

  George III, 47, 116, 159, 275, 325

  George V, 444, 448

  George, David Lloyd, 260, 261

  Gerof, Demetri, 421, 429–30, 432

  Gilbert, Humphrey, 384, 389

  Glenn, John, 344

  Golden Hind, 387–88

  Gore, John, 117, 123

  Göring, Hermann, 59, 60, 62, 65, 66–69, 71–72

  Gran, Tryggve, 419–21, 431, 433

  Grieve, Kenneth “Mac,” 367–72

  Gronlund, Linda, 249–50

  Gurkhas, the, 266–72

  Haig, Douglas, 443, 447

  Hall, Virginia, 189–90

  Hallett, John, 332, 337–38

  Hallowes, Odette, 187–89

  Hamilton, Alexander, 22

  Hardy, Thomas, 286, 289–91

  Hawker, Harry, 367–72

  Hawkins, John, 386–87, 389

  Hayes, Ira, 300, 303–5

  Hayward, Thomas, 326–27, 332, 337–38

  Henderson, Richard, 49

  Herbert, Sidney, 238, 240, 241, 244–45

  Heywood, Peter, 326–29, 332, 335–41

  Hill, Biggin, 65, 66, 68

  Hillary, Edmund, 27, 125–31

  Houdini, Harry, 397–410

  Houston, Sam, 195, 196–98, 200, 205–6

  Howe, William, 14–16

  Huggan, Thomas, 325, 327

  Hunt, John, 126, 129

  Inskip, Thomas, 60–61

  Iwo Jima, battle of, 294–305

  James I, 83, 84, 394

  Jay, John, 23–24

  Jefferson, Thomas, 21, 22

  Jervis, John, 277–79

  John, King, and the Magna Carta, 74–82

  Johns, W. E., 232–33

  Jones, Gareth, 28–29

  Keaton, Buster, 400, 407

  Keller, Helen, 93–102

  Kennedy, John F., 82, 343–45, 460–61

  Khan, Noor-un-nisa Inayat, 180–83

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 453–62

  Kitchener, Herbert, 256, 257

  Knox, Dillwyn, 319

  Knox, Henry, 22

  Kuribayashi, Tadamichi, 296, 301–4

  Langton, Stephen, 77

  Lashly, Bill, 416, 424

  Lawrence, T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia), 225–34

  Lebogue, Lawrence, 328, 332, 334, 338

  Ledward, Thomas, 325, 332, 334, 336

  Leigh-Mallory, Trafford, 62–64, 69–71

  Lister, Joseph, 235

  Little Bighorn, battle of, 157–59

  Livingstone, David, 133, 147

  Locke, John, 20, 138, 171

  L’Orient, 281–82, 292

  Lowe, George, 127–28, 130

  Lynch, Thomas, 220–23

  McCoy, William, 327–28, 332, 339

  Macy, Anne Sullivan, 95–102

  Magna Carta, 74–82, 178

  Mallory, George, 125, 126, 129

  Marks, Leo, 184, 187

  Matra, James, 19

  Meares, Cecil, 421, 422, 429–30

  Mecca, 41, 226–27

  Modyford, Thomas, 210–12, 215, 220–22

  Morgan, C. W. Fairfax “Fax,” 368, 372

  Morgan, Edward, 210–12

  Morgan, Henry, 208–24

  Morrison, James, 327–29, 332, 336–40

  Mount Everest, 27, 32, 125–31

  Mount Vernon, 3, 6, 9–11, 20, 22, 24–25

  Nansen, Fridtjof, 412, 413, 418–20, 428

  Napier, Charles, 38–39, 235

  Napoléon Bonaparte, 54, 177; and Nelson, 276, 280–83, 285, 286; and Wellington, 354–55, 359–65

  NASA, 342–48

  Nearne, Eileen, 187

  Neill, James C., 196–98

  Nelson, David, 326, 330, 332–36

  Nelson, Horatio, 273–93, 354

  Newman, Max, 320–23

  Nightingale, Florence, 166, 235–45

  Nimitz, Chester, 295, 304

  9/11 terrorist attacks, 246–52

  Nixon, Richard, 348, 459

  North Pole, 32, 411, 412–14, 418, 420–22

  Oates, Lawrence “Titus,” 424, 427–33

  Paine, Thomas, 12, 14, 137, 170–79

  Park, Keith, 60, 62–64, 67, 69–73

  Parker, Hyde, 283–84

  Parks, Rosa, 456–57

  Peckover, William, 326, 330, 332, 338

  Peña, José de la, 202–5

  Pitt, William, 141–43, 146

  Pontiac, Chief, 10, 46–47

  Pope, Alexander, 138

  Priestley, Joseph, 137, 176

  Purcell, William, 326, 328, 330–32, 334, 336

  Railton, David, 443–44, 447, 449

  Ralegh, Walter, 383–96

  Randolph, Edmund, 22

  Raynham, Freddie, 368, 370–73

  Reid, Pat, 436, 437, 439, 441–42

  Reno, Marcus Albert, 157–58

  Resolution, 111–21, 123

  Richard I (“the Lion-Hearted”), 74–75

  Rights of Man (Paine), 174–78

  Rolfe, Lilian, 185–86

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 55

  Rosenthal, Joe, 299–300

  Ross, James Clark, 411, 412

  Royal Air Force (RAF), 181, 191, 232–33, 266–67, 319, 381; and battle of Britain, 57–73

  Royal Sovereign, 287–90

  Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 193–203, 205–6

  Santissima Trinidad, 277, 287–89

  Schmidt, Harry, 297, 300, 302–3

  Scott, Jack, 307, 309

  Scott, Robert Falcon, 31, 165, 411–33

  Shackleton, Ernest, 413–18, 420–24, 426

  Sharp, Granville, 138–40, 142, 144, 145, 147

  Shepard, Alan, 344

  Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), 149–64

  slavery (slave trade), 3, 10, 11, 16, 19, 21, 132–34, 172, 177, 194, 360, 453; abolition of, in the British Empire, 132–48

  Slim, William, 266, 269–70, 295

  Sloane, Hans, 136, 137

  Smith, Adam, 139, 140, 145

  Soult, Jean-de-Dieu, 356, 358

  South Pole, 31, 411, 413–16, 418–20, 425–26, 428–29

  Special Operations Executive (SOE), women of, 180–92

  Speke, John, 42

  Spenser, Edmund, 389, 392

  Sputnik, 342, 343

  Stewart, George, 329, 332, 335, 337

  Storrs, Ronald, 227, 232, 234

  Suckling, Maurice, 273, 274

  Szabó, Violette, 183–85

  Tennyson, Alfred, 242, 433

  Tenzing Norgay, 125–31

  Thomson, Polly, 100, 101

  Tiltman, John, 316, 320

  Tipu Sultan, 181, 351–52

  Travis, William, 197–202, 204, 205

  Turing, Alan, 317, 320–21, 323–24

  Twain, Mark, 101, 253

  United Airlines Flight 93, 246–52

  Unknown Warrior, 443–52

  Van Braam, Jacob, 3, 5, 6

  Vickers, Ltd., 368–82

  Victoria, Queen, 34, 42, 241–44

  Victory, 273, 276–78, 285–93
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br />   Villeneuve, Pierre-Charles, 286–87, 289

  Wake, Nancy, 190–91

  Walpole, Horace, 5

  Wardle, Hank, 439, 441, 442

  Washington, George, 1–25, 46

  Waterloo, battle of, 361–64

  Wellesley, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 349–65

  Wesley, John, 138, 142

  Wilberforce, William, 140–48

  Wilson, Edward, 414–16, 421, 424–28, 430–33

  Wolfe, James, 8, 105

  World Trade Center attacks, 246–50

  World War I, 260–61, 407, 435; and Bishop, 306–14; and Cavell, 166–68; and Lawrence of Arabia, 226–32; Unknown Warrior, 443–52

  World War II: battle of Britain, 57–73; and Bletchley Park, 315–24; and Churchill, 253, 262–63; Colditz prisoners, 434–42; and the Gurkhas, 268, 269–70; Iwo Jima, 294–305; SOE, 180–92

  Wounded Knee, battle of, 162–63

  About the Authors

  Born in London, Conn Iggulden studied English at London University and worked as a teacher for seven years before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of the bestselling Emperor series and the Conqueror series, and is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys. He lives with his wife and two children in Hertfordshire, England. David Iggulden served as a deck officer in the Merchant Navy and a private in the Army Reserves before studying journalism and English at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He has since worked as a journalist, press officer, and projects manager, and published several nonfiction books. He has been part of many international adventures, including In the Footsteps of Scott Expedition, the First Fleet Reenactment, and the 2000 Olympic Games. He lives in the Blue Mountains, Australia.

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  THE DANGEROUS BOOK OF HEROES. Copyright © 2010 by Conn Iggulden. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Iggulden, Conn.

  The dangerous book of heroes / Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden.—1st US ed.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-0-06-192824-6

  1. Heroes—Biography. 2. Courage—Case studies. 3. Self-confidence—Case studies. 4. Perseverance (Ethics)—Case studies. I. Iggulden, David, 1949–II. Title.

  CT105.I35 2009

  920.02—dc22

  2009040140

  EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199540-8

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