An edition of On the Run
(2013)
On the run
deserters through the ages
by Graeme Kent
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A history of deserters and desertion which details those men and women who have gone absent without leave. Among them are pugilists, poets, thieves, thugs, lovers and lunatics, princes and politicians. Covering thousands of years in time, and over forty countries, it is an anecdotal history of one of the most emotive subjects in war.
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On the Run: Deserters Through the Ages
2013, Biteback Publishing
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1849546371 9781849546379
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On the Run: Deserters Through the Ages
2013, Biteback Publishing, The Robson Press
in English
1849545707 9781849545709
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On the run: deserters through the ages
2013, MJF Books/Fine Communications
in English
1606712853 9781606712856
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Table of Contents
The first deserters
'Let no one spare a soldier!'
Peace and Northumbria
Quick or dead
'Follow the flagship!'
Vagrant soldiers
Lost leaders
'A torrent of mutiny!'
'The glorious emblem of native rights'
Snowbirds and woodland
'The most motley collection'
Early twentieth-century blues
One in every ten
'Be glad that you are here!'
'My desert is waiting ... '
'I'll never forgive Hitler!'
'They're not shooting me for deserting!'
The lost divisions
Stars of stage, screen and glasshouse
'For you the war is over!'
'Make mine a double!'
'Untrustworthy and incapable'
'I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong!'
'Died deluded'
Tipping points.
Edition Notes
"This edition is published by MJF Books in arrangement with The Robson Press, an imprint of Biteback Publishing Ltd." -- title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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