On the Run
Subtitle: Deserters Through the Ages
Publisher: Biteback Publishing; The Robson Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781849545709
Subjects: Desertion, military
Description: This fascinating history of deserters and desertion 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.