Graeme Kent

On the Run (eBook, ePUB)

Deserters Through the Ages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There have been many books written about valour in battle. This is not one of them. On the contrary, On the Run deals entirely with those men and women who have departed from life in the armed forces. For as long as there have been wars there have been those who have fled from the cannon’s roar. In this fascinating and unique history of deserters and desertion, Graeme Kent scours the annals of warfare to find those who, for a multitude of often complex reasons, have gone absent without leave. Among their number are poets and pugilists, thieves and thugs, lovers and lunatics, princes and politicians, comedians and conspirators, film stars and fanatics, and even a pope, all brought together by the simple fact that at one time or another they went on the run. Covering thousands of years and spanning the globe, this compelling book presents an extraordinary anecdotal history of perhaps the most controversial and emotive subject in war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Robson Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849546379
• Artikelnr.: 39273345

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