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First World War Trials and Executions

Britain's Traitors, Spies and Killers, 1914-1918

By: SIMON WEBB

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Paperback | 1 March 2021

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192 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 2.7

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These true tales bring back to life some of our historic West Country's most fascinating people, places and happenings. Each story introduces one of the many characters who have found a place in the history of the region: Catherine of Aragon on a mule, Lady Nelson on a second honeymoon, John Betjeman waxing poetical about his favourite seaside town.

All these stories and more are told here, from the French prisoners on Dartmoor to Jane Austen taking the plunge at Lyme and along the way the unsolved mystery of the Devil's footprints at Dawlish and the astonishing account of the lion's attack on the Exeter coach, each tale chosen to amuse, intrigue or shock today's travellers.

About the Author

John Fisher is a writer who has worked in publishing, advertising and print media. Since retiring he has been a 'Learning Volunteer' with The National Trust at Montacute House, Somerset, teaching Tudor history to school parties. He lives in Ottery St Mary, Devon.

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"More attention is given to the doomed prisoner's last experiences than readers will find in other crime writing."-- "International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence"
" Webb presents the real-life stories of thirty-one trials that occurred during World War One in Britain, from 1914-1918. Each of these trials, separated in the book by murder method or type of offense, ended in execution. This book details the experiences of each man chosen for execution (there were no women on trial for murder during this time period), from sentencing to execution, and recounts the activities that took place in the cell of the confined and also during the execution."-- "ProtoView"

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