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    Forgotten Soldiers: The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War
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    Forgotten Soldiers: The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War

    By Stephen Walker

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 23, 2007
    ISBN9780717162215
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    Forgotten Soldiers: The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War
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    Stephen Walker

    Stephen Walker was born in London. He has a BA in History from Oxford and an MA in the History of Science from Harvard. His previous book was Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, a New York Times bestseller. As well as being a writer he is also an award-winning documentary director. His films have won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Rose d’Or, Europe’s most prestigious documentary award.

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