- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Brassey's (UK) Ltd; illustrated edition edition (December 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1857531469
- ISBN-13: 978-1857531466
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
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On 20 September 1943, almost 200 members of the crack 50th (Tyne Tees) and 51st (Highland) Divisions were arrested for refusing repeated orders to join unfamiliar units fighting at the blood-soaked Salerno beachhead. Using official records and the verbal and written testimony of those involved, this book gives a comprehensive account of the series of high-level blunders and deceptions that caused a large body of Eighth Army veterans to risk execution rather than accept being "Shanghai-ed" to a different formation. Revealing the contents of secret defence documents and the recently de-classified trial papers, the author exposes the charade of a trial, the inevitable guilty verdicts and the unjustifiably draconian sentences that left three men facing the firing squad and the rest long terms in prison. Despite the chance intervention of a senior general, resulting in the suspension of all sentences, the men were so insensitively treated that almost half felt compelled to reoffend and had their sentences reimposed. Only when an army psychiatrist favourably reported on the motives behind the offences were the men finally released from detention after the war. In conclusion, the author describes the trial as "one of the greatest iniquities in the history of British military justice", and argues that only an official pardon will bring to an end the long years of suffering for the victims and their families. Saul David is the author of "Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division: France 1940".
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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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