Название: Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front
Автор: Andrea Hetherington
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526747995
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 205
Размер: 5,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
The story of First World War deserters who were shot at dawn, then pardoned nearly a century later has often been told, but these 306 soldiers represent a tiny proportion of deserters. More than 80,000 cases of desertion and absence were tried at courts martial on the home front but these soldiers have been ignored. Andrea Hetherington, in this thought-provoking and meticulously researched account, sets the record straight by describing the deserters who disappeared from camps and barracks within Great Britain at an alarming rate.