Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War by Cathryn Corns, John Hughes-Wilson

Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War

Cathryn Corns, John Hughes-Wilson

543 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional medium-paced
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Three hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number, 266 were shot for desertion in the face of the enemy. The executions continue to haunt the history of...

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