[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.]

The British contingent of the historioblogosphere has swung into action upon hearing that their government is planning to pardon over 300 soldiers executed during the First World War. I have little to add to what everyone is saying (broadly, that such a blanket pardon rides roughshod over a complex situation and seems to derive more from politics than history -- not that this is surprising), so I'll just link to the various posts:

• Anthony Cormack at Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
• Dan Todman at Trench Fever
• Esther MacCallum-Stewart at Break of Day in the Trenches / Revise and Dissent
• George Simmers at Great War Fiction
• Tony Keen at Memorabilia Antonina

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