For the Sake of Example: Capital Courts Martial 1914-1918, the Truth (Penguin Classic Military History S.) - Softcover

Babington, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141391006 ISBN 13: 9780141391007

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2002

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346 officers and men were summarily executed at dawn following their courts martial in the field between the outbreak of war in 1914 and the end of March 1920. Anthony Babington is the only writer who has been allowed access by the Ministry of Defence to all the files relating to these cases. He found that although the majority of the executed men were guilty or technically guilty of the charges laid against them, many were treated with considerable injustice and great inhumanity. This book reveals the grim and sometimes horrific details of the trials and executions. The disclosures it has revealed aroused a widespread sense of shame, and have led to frequent demands for posthumous pardons.

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Anthony Babington served in the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1939-1945. He was a Circuit Judge in London from 1972 until his retirement in 1988. His other books include A House in Bow Street, The English Bastille, and Military Intervention in Britain.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141391006
• ISBN 13: 9780141391007
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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