Scapegoats
Subtitle: thirteen victims of military injustice
By: Michael Scott ; foreword by Magnus Linklater
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781908739681
Subjects: Military history; Scapegoat; Case studies; Cases; Judicial error
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Captain Jahleel Brenton Carey : The Killing of the Prince Imperial June 1879; title: Captain Charles McVay : The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis July 1945; title: Admiral John Byng : 'Pour encourager les autres' March 1757; title: Captain Alfred Dreyfus : J'accuse October 1894; title: Lieutenant General James 'Pete' Longstreet : The 'Old War Horse' of Gettysburg July 1863; title: Lance Corporal Robert Jesse Short : Mutiny at Étaples October 1917; title: Major General Jackie Smyth VCMC : Disaster of the Sittang Bridge February 1942; title: Lieutenant General Sir Charles Warren GCMG KCB : 'Scapegoat-in-Chief of the Army in South Africa' January 1900; title: Brigadier George Taylor DSO and Bar : The Battle of Maryang San October 1951; title: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bevan : Scapegoat of the Peninsula July 1811; title: Marquis Joseph Francois Dupleix : Nawab of the Carnatic August 1754; title: Lieutenant General David 'Dado' Elazar : Atonement October 1973; title: Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire OC CMM GOQ MSC CD : Massacre in Rwanda April 1994.