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The First Casualty (2005)

de Ben Elton

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"Flanders, June 1917- a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle? As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth. "… (mais)
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Excellent. Very fair to those who fought and those who didn’t ( )
  mumoftheanimals | Nov 7, 2021 |
This is a good but very sad story.

Set in 1917 Respected Policeman and Conscientious objector Douglas Kingsley is sent to Prison for refusing to fight in World War 1. He gets a nasty kicking on his first night. His Wife disowns him and he ends up in the Prison hospital. He is a brave but very stubborn man for sticking to his beliefs. He is helped to escape from jail on one condition he goes over to Belgium to investigate the Murder of Viscount Abercrombie whose Father has significant influence with the UK Government.
Kingsley's death is faked and he is given a new identity, he has to report to a hideous man called Captain Shannon who is some sort of spy.
Kingsley makes it over to the Trenches were he encounters some horrible conditions, he quickly discovers what has happened, a cover up by the Army. Along with a nice Nurse called Kitty Murray he concludes his investigation. He does see active service after all and has to kill some Germans to rescue some British troops from the trenches.
Kingsley discovers the real Killer is Shannon.
Kingsley can go home to London but he has to take on his Dead brothers identity and then he reunites with his wife.

Very good book and it enables you to imagine how horrible the Trenches must have been. ( )
  Daftboy1 | Oct 28, 2020 |
Historie om en engelsk politimand, der bliver militærnægter og kastet i fængsel med kriminelle, som han selv har fået sat ind. Redder livet ved at skulle opklare en sag for efterretningstjenesten ved fronten i Frankrig. Får her krigen på nærmeste hånd og får afprøvet sine meninger. Mange historiske facts bliver flettet ind på en gumpetung måde og historien fungerer ikke helt. ( )
  msc | Sep 15, 2019 |
Captivating ( )
  DavidGibson | Jan 31, 2016 |
“One thing we’ve learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak

Douglas Kingsley is a top police detective sentenced to jail for refusing to fight during WWI. Viscount Abercrombie, an aristocratic poet and war hero is found murdered in France. Kingsley is sent to France to find the truth behind the murder. Kingsley quickly realises that the main suspect, a shell-shocked soldier, is innocent. Kingsley finds himself caught in the world between the sanctioned murder of war and the illegal act of homicide.

In this novel Ben Elton revisits the trenches of WWI that he portrayed so hilariously with Blackadder and this is very different than any of his novels other that I've read in the past. The plot is pretty preposterous as even Kingsley thinks himself, why would any care about one death when thousands are dying on a daily basis? The introduction of historical background of suffragettes, the rise of Labour and Irish independence feel rather cliched IMHO.However it is worth persevering with because once Kingsley gets to the front line, the book moves onto a different plane and the main character becomes less facetious finally taking on real human dimensions.

There is no real mystery in who committed the dastardly crime and the ending is a little too neat
for my liking but that said whilst Elton is no Faulks for about 100 pages he manages to fill the reader with a real sense of the horror and misery that those real life combatants must have felt. As such it is a reasonable effort and worth a go. ( )
  PilgrimJess | Dec 31, 2015 |
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"Flanders, June 1917- a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle? As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth. "

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