A BIOGRAPHY of four brothers, who won medals, including the Victoria Cross, for their wartime bravery, has gone on sale.

The Fighting Bradfords, by author and retired teacher Harry Moses, was launched at the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery on Saturday.

Published by County Durham Books, the publishing arm of Durham County Council, it traces the four men's histories and looks at what it was like to be a young man fighting during the First World War.

The brothers - Roland, Thomas, George and James - served with exceptional heroism in the Durham Light Infantry and the Royal Navy.

George, a Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander, who was killed at Zeebrugge, Belgium, and Roland, who at 25 became the Army's youngest Brigadier General, were the war's only brothers to receive the Victoria Cross.

James, who served with the 18th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, won the Military Cross; and Thomas, of the regiment's 8th Battalion was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

Thomas was the only brother to survive the conflict. He was knighted in 1939.

In a foreword to The Fighting Bradfords, Sir Peter de la Billiere, a former solider with the Durham Light Infantry and British commander in the 1990 Gulf War, says the brothers, "epitomise the finest tradition of bravery and leadership within the British Services".

The Fighting Bradfords is available from bookshops. It costs £11.95.