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'Deserters on the Home Front' with Andrea Heatherington

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When discussing the topic of desertion in the First World War the frequent focus is the fate of those shot at dawn for their crimes. The numbers of those shot are completely dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of men who were guilty of the crime of desertion. This talk looks at the phenomenon of desertion on the home front, examining the statis...