Author spotlight - Julian Putkowski and Mark Dunning
Posted on Wednesday 26th September 2012

Further Reading
Murderous Tommies
(Hardback - 224 pages)
ISBN: 9781848846265
by Julian Putkowski
Only £19.99
Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offences, all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. However, until now very little attention has been paid to the cases of men who were tried under the Army Act and executed for murder.
The British Army has always been reticent about publicising courts martial and eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial. Even then, public attention tended to concentrate…
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