Book description
Drawn from many sources, this engaging collection demonstrates that
'gentlemanly behaviour' transcends all barriers, from gender and
wealth to age and class - here are noble acts by footballers and
fashionistas, television personalities and teenagers, great commanders
and humble private soldiers, society ladies and modest housewives,
elderly philosophers and very young children. It includes Alexander
the Great, Marie Antoinette, the Duke of Wellington, Evelyn Waugh,
Winston Churchill, Sammy Davis Junior and Colonel Tim Collins. Often
amusing, sometimes moving, occasionally astounding and always
fascinating, Random Acts of Politeness is both a marvellous read and a
tribute to the finest, albeit often overlooked, qualities of humankind.
