{"product_id":"9780717162215","title":"Forgotten Soldiers: The Story of the Irishmen Executed by the British Army during the First World War","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, \u003ci\u003eForgotten Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by their own side. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades the full story of how the Irishmen died has largely remained a secret, but now one of the most controversial chapters in British military history can at last be told. In 2006 the British government finally pardoned those soldiers who were shot at dawn. \u003ci\u003eForgotten Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to chronicle how relatives and campaigners fought to clear the men’s names.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117374750960,"sku":"9780717162215","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780717162215_p0.jpg?v=1763630891","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780717162215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}