Forgotten Soldiers (eBook)

Stephen Walker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2007
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-6221-5 (ISBN)

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Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad. From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, Forgotten Soldiers traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by their own side. For decades the full story of how the Irishmen died has largely remained a secret, but now one of the most controversial chapters in British military history can at last be told. In 2006 the British government finally pardoned those soldiers who were shot at dawn. Forgotten Soldiers is the first book to chronicle how relatives and campaigners fought to clear the men's names.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.10.2007
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: BBC journalist • British Army • British military archives • Desertion • disobedience • Forgotten Soldiers • Gallipoli • Irish-British affairs • Irish executions • Irish History • John Hipkin • Royal Irish Rifles • secret executions of Irish soldiers • Shot At Dawn campaign • Stephen Walker • The First World War • The Great War • the Irish Guards • the Western Front • war veterans • World War I
• ISBN-10: 0-7171-6221-4 / 0717162214
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-6221-5 / 9780717162215