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portada Shot at Dawn Jesse Short - Étaples, 1917 - Politics of Military Justice
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
370
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9798235231009

Shot at Dawn Jesse Short - Étaples, 1917 - Politics of Military Justice

O'Day, Patrick (Author) · Silverback Books · Paperback

Shot at Dawn Jesse Short - Étaples, 1917 - Politics of Military Justice - O'Day, Patrick

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Synopsis "Shot at Dawn Jesse Short - Étaples, 1917 - Politics of Military Justice"

200-Word Book Summary On the night of September 9, 1917, thousands of soldiers broke through the wire of the British Army's largest base camp in France and took the streets - and one man paid for it with his life. At Étaples-sur-Mer, where the BEF processed hundreds of thousands of men toward the killing fields of Passchendaele, a uniquely toxic combination of institutional contempt, class injustice, and accumulated trauma had been building for three years. When a military policeman shot a veteran soldier dead over an unbuttoned tunic, it was one provocation too many. Shot at Dawn reconstructs the Étaples mutiny - the largest breakdown of military discipline in British Army history - in full narrative detail for the first time. Drawing on unit war diaries, court-martial records, Dominion archives, and the oral testimonies of communities who kept the story alive through six decades of official silence, Patrick O'Day recovers the men who made this history: the New Zealand soldier whose arrest sparked the riots, the Scottish corporal whose killing ignited them, the union man executed as the sole example, the poet who walked the same dunes and turned them into elegy. This is the story the War Office tried to bury. It is also the story of what happens when institutions forget that the people they contain are human beings - and what those human beings do when they refuse to be forgotten.

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