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
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
Villeneuve, Pierre-Charles, 286–87, 289
Wake, Nancy, 190–91
Walpole, Horace, 5
Wardle, Hank, 439, 441, 442
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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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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