- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Conway Maritime Press; New edition (September 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1844860191
- ISBN-13: 978-1844860197
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 259 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,220,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In late September 1943, nearly 200 veterans of Montgomery's Eighth Army were arrested for refusing orders to join units of the US Fifth Army at the Salerno beachhead in southern Italy. Within six weeks, all but one had been found guilty of mutiny, their sentences ranging from five years' penal servitude to death. Fifty years on, Saul David became the first military historian to gain access to the court martial papers -- normally restricted for 75 years. In addition to crucial defence documents and the testimony of eye-witnesses, these papers enabled David to expose: * How poorly equipped Eighth Army veterans, some still recovering from wounds and illness, were needlessly sent as reinforcements to Salerno when Fifth Army men were available. * How transit camp authorities deliberately deceived the reinforcements as to their destination. * How the defence team at their trial was forced, by lack of time, lack of witnesses and the hostility of the court, to offer a case based on no evidence and doomed to fail. * How, after the humane intervention of the Adjutant-General and the suspension of sentences, insensitive staff officers and victimisation in their new units caused many mutineers to desert. * How, as a result of their convictions, the former war heroes were stripped of their campaign and gallantry medals and branded as cowards
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Saul David is the author of several critically-acclaimed history books.
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No sense of regimental pride, April 17 2012
By Hercule Poirot - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mutiny at Salerno 1943: An Injustice Exposed (Paperback)
This is a great book. These British officers who court-martial the soldiers had forgotten about having regimental pride. It is amazing that the British put so much time, money, sweat and blood in indoctrinating their enlisted men and officer cadets to create regimenital espirt de corp in them; however, in this case, that regimental pride backfire on these enlisted men when all they wanted was to fight and if necessary die for their comrades in their own regiment.It is clear that these officers only care about their own careers plus maintaining military discipline at all costs. It is also clear that they witheld the mutiny information from General Alexander and Montogomery. Those guys would have never allow the court martial to happen. Of course, it would have been better if Montogomery and Alexander had spent part of their post-war careers trying to clear the records of the court-martial men.
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