" It was a great shock when I opened the file  listing details of executions in the Great War.  What I found amazed and deeply troubled me.  There were names,  ages and details.  I discovered that they were so young, so vulnerable and so alone.   ...In only three cases did the prisoner have the benefit of a prisoner's friend.  These young men, on trial for their lives, went before their superiors without legal representations or assistance.  The knowledge of this is horrific, and has deep implications."


Leonard Sellers, author of

"For God's Sake Shoot Straight"

  French:                   600
  Italy                         500?
  British:                    346  [Includes Commonwealth troops]
  German:                 48
  Canada:                  25
  Belgium                   13
  United States:         10  [For non-military offences - e.g. murder and rape]
  New Zealand:         5
  Australia:                Nil
  Russia:                    Nil