1st Edition
Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War Determining the Fate of Britain’s and New Zealand’s Conscripts
By David Littlewood
Copyright 2018
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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While a plethora of studies have discussed why so many men decided to volunteer for the army during the Great War, the experiences of those who were called up under conscription have received relatively little scrutiny. Even when the implementation of the respective Military Service Acts has been investigated, scholars have usually focused on only the distinct minority of those eligible who... Read more
Introduction
1 Setting the Boundaries
2 Judges and Juries
3 Willing and Able to Go?
4 Autonomy or Compliance?
5 Army First?
6 Those Troublesome Few
7 Work or Fight?
Conclusions
Biography
David Littlewood is Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, New Zealand.
