TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sellers, Leonard,
TI  - Death for desertion: the story of the court martial and execution of Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Leopold Arthur Dyett Nelson Battalion, 63rd (RN) Division, during the First World War 
SN  - 0850529778
AV  - KD6323.D94 S45 2003x
U1  - 343.410143 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Barnsley
PB  - Leo Cooper
KW  - Dyett, Edwin Leopold Arthur.
KW  - World War (1914-1918)
KW  - fast
KW  - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Desertions
KW  - Executions and executioners
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Originally published: as For God's sake shoot straight. 1995; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "It is a soldier's tale cut in stone to melt all hearts" Thus Winston Churchill in his introduction to AP Herbert's novel The Secret Battle, a book inspired by and quite clearly based upon the execution of Sub-Lieutenant Edwin Dyett of the Nelson Battalion, 63rd (Royal Navy) Division on 5 January, 1917, for desertion in the face of the enemy. This moving and thought-provoking book cuts a path through the cloud of secrecy which for years has enveloped all the documents relating to First World War courts martial, to tell the tragic tale of the death of one such young man and the truth behind his conviction
ER  -