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List Of Books On Military Executions In World War I
This is a bibliography of works on military executions in World War I. In English * Babington, Anthony, ''For the Sake of Example: Capital Courts-Martial, 1914–1920'', (London: Penguin. 2002) * Chielens, Piet & Putkowski, Julian; ''Unquiet Graves / Rusteloze Graven Guide: Execution Sites of the First World War in Flanders'' (UK: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2000) * Corns, Caroline & Hughes-Wilson, John; ''Blindfold and Alone'' (London, Cassell. 2001) * Corrigan, Gordon, ''Mud, Blood and Poppycock'' (London: Weidenfeld Military. 2004) * Godefroy, Andrew, ''For Freedom and Honour? The Story of 25 Canadians Executed During the Great War'' (Toronto: CEF Books, 1998) * Lister, David; ''Die Hard, Aby!'', (England: Pen & Sword, 2005) * Moore, William, ''The Thin Yellow Line'', (London: Wordsworth. 1999) * Oram, Gerard, ''Death Sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914–1924'', (UK: Francis Boutle Publishers, 1999) * Oram, Gerard; ''Worthless Men: Race, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Babington (author)
Anthony Patrick Babington (4 April 1920, in County Cork – 10 May 2004, in London) was a British author, judge and Army officer. Early life Babington was born in County Cork in 1920 to Oscar John Gilmore Babington (1879–1930), also an Army officer, and his wife Annie Honor Wrixon (1878–1975). Among his cousins were Sir Anthony Babington and Robert Babington, a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross.'' Who's Who 1991'', p. 72''An Uncertain Voyage'' by BABINGTON, ANTHONY, published by Barry Rose Law Publishers Limited 15 June 2000, In the early stages of his life, Babington grew up in India and England. However, Babington's father died of alcoholism when he was aged 10, so the family were forced to sell their estate in Cork. Babington, his mother and two siblings were continuing to live at Kenley Court, where they had been living in Surrey, in reduced circumstances, whilst Babington attended Reading School, having originally been set to go to Eton College. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piet Chielens
Piet Chielens (born 1956) a Belgian writer, translator and curator. He is coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium. He is also artistic director of ''Vredesconcerten Passendale'' ('' Passchendaele Peace Concerts''). Chielens was born in Reningelst. He is co-author, with Julian Putkowski Julian Putkowski (born 1947) is a British university teacher, military historian, researcher, and broadcaster. He has written extensively on military executions in World War I. Putkowski graduated from the University of Essex in 1976. He has si ..., of ''Unquiet Graves / Rusteloze Graven Guide: Execution Sites of the First World War in Flanders''. Bibliography * Putkowski, Julian & Chielens, Piet; ''Unquiet Graves / Rusteloze Graven Guide: Execution Sites of the First World War in Flanders'', (UK: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2000) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chielens, Piet 1956 births Living people People from Poperinge Historians of World War I Military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Putkowski
Julian Putkowski (born 1947) is a British university teacher, military historian, researcher, and broadcaster. He has written extensively on military executions in World War I. Putkowski graduated from the University of Essex in 1976. He has since then been researching military discipline and dissent. In 1989, he was co-author, with Julian Sykes, of ''Shot at Dawn: Executions in World War I by Authority of the British Army Act''. The publication of the book led indirectly to renewed public interest in the topic of soldiers executed during the war, culminating in the issue of pardons to 306 men who were shot for various offenses, including cowardice. Later, Putkowski wrote a book entitled ''Murderous Tommies'' with Mark Dunning, a lawyer interested in British Army capital courts martial cases. ''Murderous Tommies'' is also about the First World War, and gives an account of 13 soldiers who committed homicide in France and Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Corrigan
John Gordon Harvey Corrigan MBE, FRAS (born 1942) is a former British soldier and historical writer and broadcaster. Corrigan was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served in the British Army's Royal Gurkha Rifles, mainly in the far east, and reached the rank of major. Between 1980 and 1987 he took a break from military service, joining the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club where he was clerk of the course at the Happy Valley Racecourse from 1980 to 1982, and Racing Secretary from 1982 to 1987. Corrigan was awarded the MBE in 1995 His last appointment was commanding the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire. Following his retirement from the army in 1998, Corrigan became a freelance writer on military history. He also presented television documentaries, made speaking appearances and conducted tours of World War I battlefields. He is an honorary research fellow of the University of Kent, and the University of Birmingham, and a teaching fellow at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Godefroy
Andrew Godefroy CD, M.A., Ph.D. is a Canadian strategic analyst and science and technology historian. Scholarship Andrew Godefroy was born in Montreal, Quebec and attended Concordia University where he studied Canadian military history. His undergraduate thesis was a study of executions of Canadian soldiers for military crimes in the First World War. He completed a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. His graduate and post-graduate studies focused on aerospace history and the Canadian rocketry and space program. Godefroy held the Canadian Visiting Research Fellowship in thChanging Character of Warfare Programat the University of Oxford in 2009. His research focused on change in the British, American, and Canadian armies since the Cold War period. Publications Godefroy's first book, a study of the death penalty in Canada's Canadian Expeditionary Force The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) was the expeditionary field force of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Oram
Gerard ("Gerry") Oram is a notable British cultural and social historian, with a particular interest in the First World War. He was a researcher at the University of Birmingham and the University of Swansea, before going on to teach at the Open University. He lectures at Swansea University teaching on a number of modules including ''Nazi Occupied Europe'' and ''the First World War''. Oram also lectured at Cardiff University where he taught the ''War, Liberation and Reconstruction: Europe 1939-51'' module. His seminal book, ''Death Sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914–1924'', is on the recommended reading lists of the National Archives and the Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military .... His work is widely referenced in the academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Pugsley
Christopher John Pugsley (born 1947) is a New Zealand military historian. He is published as Chris Pugsley and Christopher Pugsley. Career Pugsley became interested in writing in 1984 when, as a career officer in the New Zealand Army, he worked on a television documentary about New Zealand's involvement in the Gallipoli campaign and authored ''Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story'', which was shortlisted for the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award the same year. In 1988, he retired from the New Zealand Army to dedicate himself to a new career as an historian. Academic career He received his PhD from the University of Waikato in 1992, and in 1994 he became Writing Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington. He then taught at University of New England, Australia from 1996 to 1999. Until 2014 he was Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Adjunct Senior Fellow at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. Areas of interest During the 1990s he wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Thurtle
Ernest Thurtle (11 November 188422 August 1954) was an American-born British Labour politician. Biography Thurtle worked as an accountant and salesman. He saw service in the army in World War I and was badly wounded at the Battle of Cambrai. In 1912 he married Dorothy Lansbury, the daughter of George Lansbury, leader of the Labour Party in the 1930s. Thurtle contested South West Bethnal Green and Shoreditch without success and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Shoreditch, London from 1923 to 1931 and from 1935 to 50, then Shoreditch and Finsbury from 1950 until his death. Thurtle's greatest achievement in Parliament was to bring about the abolition of the death penalty for cowardice or desertion in the British Army. With over 300 British soldiers shot by firing squad after brief trials during World War I, Thurtle first introduced the measure for abolition in 1924, which became Labour Party policy in 1925 and eventually approved by the House of Commons by the Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Pedroncini
Guy Pedroncini (1924-2006) was a French academic and military historian specialising in the First World War, and notable as the biographer of Philippe Pétain and for his work on the French army mutinies of 1917. Carlier, Claude; Allain, Jean-Claude (2006) "In memoriam Guy Pedroncini''Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains'' Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. pp 3-5. Issue: 224. Sep 2006. He was born in Paris on 17 May 1924 and died on 11 July 2006, at the age of 82. Le Monde ''Guy Pedroncini'' (obituary). 18 July 2006. Retrieved: 2009-01-17. An alumnus of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure at Saint-Cloud, Pedroncini worked as a high school teacher in lycées in Tours and in Courbevoie while working on his doctoral thesis. This thesis, on the French army mutinies of 1917, was published in 1967 and was the first to provide detailed statistical analysis of more than 600 courts martial, based on his then unprecedented access to the French military justice archives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Books About World War I
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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