Graeme Kent

On the Run

Deserters Through the Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

From Benedict Arnold to Arnold Schwarzenegger, a fascinating history of those who have gone absent without leave.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781849545709
• ISBN-10: 1849545707
• Artikelnr.: 37557498

Autorenporträt

Graeme Kent is a prolific author published in more than twenty different countries. His books include The Strongest Men on Earth, The Great White and Olympic Follies. He is also author of the Sister Conchita series for Soho Crime. He has written for stage and screen, as well as for radio and many national newspapers and magazines. He served with the army in Korea, worked as a BBC producer and a consultant to Yorkshire Television, and was the headmaster of a primary school. For eight years he ran an educational broadcasting service in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. He has two grown-up children and lives with his wife Janet in Lincolnshire, England.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction ix
1. The First Deserters 1
2. 'Let No One Spare a Soldier!' 13
3. Peace and Northumbria 25
4. Quick or Dead 31
5. 'Follow the Flagship!' 43
6. Vagrant Soldiers 55
7. Lost Leaders 69
8. 'A Torrent of Mutiny!' 83
9. 'The Glorious Emblem of Native Rights' 101
10. Snowbirds and Woodland 113
11. 'The Most Motley Collection' 127
12. Early Twentieth-Century Blues 143
13. One in Every Ten 151
14. 'Be Glad That You Are Here!' 169
15. 'My Desert is Waiting...' 175
16. 'I'll Never Forgive Hitler!' 191
17. 'They're Not Shooting Me for Deserting!' 203
18. The Lost Divisions 217
19. Stars of Stage, Screen and Glasshouse 229
20. 'For You the War is Over!' 245
21. 'Make Mine a Double!' 261
22. 'Untrustworthy and Incapable' 279
23. 'I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Viet Cong!' 293
24. 'Died Deluded' 303
25. Tipping Points 313
Select Bibliography 321
Index 327