Название: War On Hospital Ships 1914- 1918
Автор: Stephen McGreal
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844158586
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
It is often said “The first casualty of war is the truth” and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships, which ran the gauntlet of mined waters and gambled on the humanity of the U- Boat commanders. For, contrary to the terms of theGeneva Convention, on occasions Germany had sunk the unarmed hospital ships under the pretense they carried reinforcement troops and ammunition. The press seized on these examples of ‘Hun Barbarity', especially the drowning of noncombatant female nurses.
The crisis heightened following the German Government's 1 February 1917 introduction of unrestricted naval warfare.