In 1917, on the eve of Passchendaele British troops in France erupted in mutiny, an event which even today is one of the British Army's most closely guarded secrets. At the centre of the mutiny was Private Percy Toplis. Under sentence of death he escaped to England, where he lived the life of an audacious outlaw, masquerading in a multitude of disguises, organizing a unique black market in army stores, even re-enlisting in the army under his own name, apparently with impunity. At last the authorities pounced and for six desperate weeks he was pursued the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, a manhunt which ended bloodily in a police amhush near a country church in June 1920.
„Revealed at last – a shameful, secret story which, for so long, the Establishment has tried to hide” (DAILY MIRROR)
„There's no doubt that they have opened out a rotten piece in the woodwork” (GUARDIAN)
„An amazing disclosure after sixty years of how 100,000 men were immobilized… (tovább)
In 1917, on the eve of Passchendaele British troops in France erupted in mutiny, an event which even today is one of the British Army's most closely guarded secrets. At the centre of the mutiny was Private Percy Toplis. Under sentence of death he escaped to England, where he lived the life of an audacious outlaw, masquerading in a multitude of disguises, organizing a unique black market in army stores, even re-enlisting in the army under his own name, apparently with impunity. At last the authorities pounced and for six desperate weeks he was pursued the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, a manhunt which ended bloodily in a police amhush near a country church in June 1920.
„Revealed at last – a shameful, secret story which, for so long, the Establishment has tried to hide” (DAILY MIRROR)
„There's no doubt that they have opened out a rotten piece in the woodwork” (GUARDIAN)
„An amazing disclosure after sixty years of how 100,000 men were immobilized in a murderous protest against brutality” (THE TIMES)