Forgotten Soldiers by Stephen Walker

Forgotten Soldiers by Stephen Walker

Award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker gives for the first time a full account of how twenty-eight Irish men serving in British regiments met their deaths. Drawing upon war diaries, court-martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, he explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shellshock, 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.

Stephen Walker has covered the politics of Northern Ireland for over thirty years. He worked as a lobby correspondent at Westminster and is a former political correspondent with BBC Northern Ireland. The author of four highly acclaimed books, his previous work was John Hume: The Persuader, a bestselling biography of the Nobel Laureate.

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ISBN 13	9780717145157
ISBN 10	0717145158
Title	Forgotten Soldiers
Author	Stephen Walker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Gill
Year published	2008-03-04
Number of pages	240
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