8 rows · · A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters. During the Second World War, the British lost , troops to desertion, and the Americans 40, Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain’s colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands. · “The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II,” by the historian and former ABC News foreign correspondent Charles Glass, thus performs a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
(Mills became world light-heavyweight champion in ) Bain fought his first professional match at Ipswich, a six-rounder against a Police and some newspapers blamed deserters for what the Daily Telegraph called "one of the greatest outbreaks of gangsterism since the end of the war.". Glass, Charles - The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II. Glass, Charles [Glass, Charles]. In a new book, The Deserters, journalist Charles Glass tells the stories of three very different men whose lives dramatize how the strain of war can These three lives stand in for tens of thousands of soldiers with similar stories; records show that 50, American soldiers deserted in the European.
During the Second World War, the British lost , troops to desertion, and the Americans 40, Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain’s colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands. “The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II, by the historian and former ABC News foreign. In a nation where World War II is commonly celebrated in films and TV in an aura of triumphalism, Charles Glass’s book The Deserters ” re-examines a phase of the war that has essentially been.
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