Heroes: from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle

God's Heroes: Deborah, Judith, Samson and David

Earthshakers: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar

Feminist Fire and Slaughter: Boudica

Exemplary Heroes: Henry V and Joan of Arc

Heroism in the Age of the Axe: St. Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Ralegh

In the Roar of the Cannon's Mouth: Washington, Nelson and Wellington

Tortured Heroism in a Man's World: Jane Welsh Carlyle and Emily Dickinson

Two Kinds of Nobility: Lincoln and Lee

Cerebral Heroism: Lundwig Wittgenstein

The Heroism of the Hostess: Lady Pamela Berry et al.

A Generous Hero and a Heroic Monster: Churchill and de Gaulle

Heroism Behind the Greasepaint: Mae West and Marilyn Monroe

The Heroic Trinity Who Tamed the Bear: Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II

Epilogue: Any Future for Heroism?