British military service tribunals, 1916-1918
Subtitle: 'a very much abused body of men'
By: James McDermott
Publisher: Manchester University Press; distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780719084775
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Draft; History
Description: Military Service Tribunals were formed in 1916, to consider applications for exemption from men deemed by new legislation to have enlisted. To the military, they were obstructionist old duffers . To most who came before them, they were the unfeeling civilian arm of a remorseless machine. This work challenges both perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-245) and index.