Willie Apiata VC The Reluctant Hero (by Paul Little)

• 2008 edition, 255 pages
• Published by Penguin/Viking Books
• Hardcover with dust jacket, black boards
• Very good condition, minor shelf wear edge of boards

Appendix of all VC winners, illustrated.     This is the story of Willie Apiata, VC, an ordinary kiwi bloke, a very reluctant hero, just doing his job.

With the lives ans safety of his mates his only priority, Apiata performed an act of courage that has now become part of New Zealand history - an act that saw him become the first recipeint of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand and just the 14th holder of the Commonwealth's highest honour for bravey since the end of the Second World War.