I was on in 1919 , so had many difficult expriences during the war, first as a nuse in London and then the Middle East. I have published a book called 'Love in the Mksts of War' commended by Lord Healy, which illustrates the changing relationsip beteen men and women which trhen was dramaticaly changing. It is an adventure and a love story set in London as the bombs fell, and in the middle east countries of Iraq. palestine. Syria, and Egypt. Readers tell me it is an exciting book to read. It is available in many bookshopa, and particularly it can be ordered on the Amazon website. It has had many complimentary reviews.
War time certainly changes many atitudes,.
I had a brother who was in Burma fighting in the jungle towards the end of the war. There was some antagonism in the local population, but nothing serious, He was asked to shoot some arrested youths. He refused, saying the young men had done nothing to deserve such treatment.. His subordinate officer was told to carry out the executions instead, He did as he was ordered, and then commited suicide, ashamed of what he had been ordered to do. The commanding oficeer arrested my brother for insubordination,, and my brother was told that the subsqent court martial would probably sentence him to be shot himself.
A senior pfficer appeared on the scene, and no action wa taken against my brother. Would it have been a war crime if he had obeyed the order?
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