In war-time on the field or in the fleet, a mortal punishment decreed by a drum-head court-on the field sometimes decreed by but a nod from the General-follows without delay on the heel of conviction without appeal.

Says a writer whom few know, 'Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing p…

If possible, not to let the men so much as surmise that their officers anticipate aught amiss from them is the tacit rule in a military ship. And the more that…

In the light of that martial code whereby it was formally to be judged, innocence and guilt personified in Claggart and Budd in effect changed places. In a leg…

They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.

'Stop that!' he shouted. 'You're soldiers! You're not supposed to fight!'

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have…