On the run
Subtitle: deserters through the ages
By: Graeme Kent
Publisher: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781606712856
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Military deserters; Anecdotes; History; Military Desertion
Other titles: Deserters through the ages
Description: A history of deserters and desertion which details those men and women who have gone absent without leave. Among them are pugilists, poets, thieves, thugs, lovers and lunatics, princes and politicians. Covering thousands of years in time, and over forty countries, it is an anecdotal history of one of the most emotive subjects in war.
Notes: "This edition is published by MJF Books in arrangement with The Robson Press, an imprint of Biteback Publishing Ltd." -- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first deserters; title: 'Let no one spare a soldier!'; title: Peace and Northumbria; title: Quick or dead; title: 'Follow the flagship!'; title: Vagrant soldiers; title: Lost leaders; title: 'A torrent of mutiny!'; title: 'The glorious emblem of native rights'; title: Snowbirds and woodland; title: 'The most motley collection'; title: Early twentieth-century blues; title: One in every ten; title: 'Be glad that you are here!'; title: 'My desert is waiting ... '; title: 'I'll never forgive Hitler!'; title: 'They're not shooting me for deserting!'; title: The lost divisions; title: Stars of stage, screen and glasshouse; title: 'For you the war is over!'; title: 'Make mine a double!'; title: 'Untrustworthy and incapable'; title: 'I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong!'; title: 'Died deluded'; title: Tipping points.