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Robert King

Shot at Dawn

The Fifteen Welshmen executed by the British Army in the First World War

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Thousands of British soldiers lie in cemeteries clustered around the battle sites of the First World War. Many of these volunteered for war, not realising trench warfare would be far from a grand adventure, nor that they would never return home.But not all of these were killed by the enemy. Over 3,000 soldiers were sentenced to death by Army Law, for desertion or other petty crimes, and more than 300 of these were blindfolded and shot by their own battalion. Many of the 'men' were still teenagers, and faced judgement in a time where shell shock was seen as an excuse for cowardice. They were branded traitors, their deaths covered up and their… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7509-5882-0
  • EAN: 9780750958820
  • Produktnummer: 16684890
  • Verlag: The History Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 128 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'830 KB

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