Book, Cathryn Corns et al, Blindfold and all alone: British military executions in the great war, 2001

Physical description


Index, notes, appendices, glossary, ill (plates b/w), p.463.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

It was one of the most controversial and still haunting aspects of World War One: the execution of 351 British soldiers for cowardice and desertion in the face of the enemy. Using new material that only now has become available from the Public Records Office and other sources, this compelling history sets out the facts of these courts-martial and shootings--and just as important, places them in the context of the military, social, and medical context of the period.

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