Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front

Deserters of the First World War: The Home FrontDescription by Andrea Hetherington Paperback 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

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