The First Casualty Ben Elton Flanders June 1917 a British officer & celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested & although protests his innocence charged with murder. PB medium Size 2005 Edition 381 pages great overall read &used condition, although cover slight rubbed, marked, bumped shelf wear, secondhand book, this is a carefully selected pre-loved book. Revealing, sobering, WWI novel, a significant gut wrenching historical drama explores fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? Where is the honour in saving a man from the a gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?? As the gap between legally sanctioned & illegal murder becomes ever more blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.Awesome, insightful, extremely informative covering wide range & variety aspects & issues of war, killing, murder, justice, truth , & lots more,

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