How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Roald Dahl, Richard Meinertzhagen, Colin Campbell Mitchell, Brian Cleeve, Alexander Cobbe, Charles Groves Wright Anderson, John Seymour, George Thesiger, Douglas Botting, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens, Freddie de Guingand, David Gordon Hines, George Giffard, William Manning, Guy Baring, David Vaisey, Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, Allan Willett, Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton, Harold E. Lambert, Derek Anthony Seagrim, Peter Hopkirk, Sir George Dick-Lauder, 12th Baronet, Lewis Heath, Edward Twining, Baron Twining, Michael Gwynn, James Erasmus Tracey Phillips, Victor Marra Newland. Excerpt: General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC GCB KCSI DSO (6 June 1870 29 June 1931) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details He was 32 years old, and a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army , attached to King's African Rifles during the Second Somaliland Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 6 October 1902 at Erego, British Somaliland , when some of the companies had retired, Lieutenant Colonel Cobbe was left by himself with a Maxim gun. Without assistance he brought in the Maxim and used it most effectively at a critical time in the engagement. He then went out under very hot fire from the enemy and succeeded in bringing in a wounded orderly. Early life Alexander Stanhope Cobbe was born on 5 June 1870 in Naini Tal, Bengal Presidency, India, the son of Lt.-Gen. Sir Alexander Hugh Cobbe and Emily Barbara Cobbe, née Jones. In 1881 he was a pupil at Eagle House School, Wimbledon. He went on to Wellington College and then followed his elder brother Henry Hercules...