War Trials is based upon rigorous new research, revealing the untold personal story of the horrors of battle and the chaos of a post-war city.

 

In the war’s aftermath the reader is drawn into the haunting investigative procedure into a possible war crime and its impact on a soldier. Through the life of young Joe McCleary, we see the struggle against depression, suicide attempts and deep sense of being let down by the army he sought to serve.

McCleary would eventually endure numerous investigations and face the threat of the International Criminal Court for war crimes; these are the shocking events that started it all.

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His is the compelling story of a contentious military campaign with little preparation for the disastrous fall out; the soldiers, pushed to the limit, who maintained a wall of a silence after doing the unthinkable; and a floating body of dead child who came to symbolise a generation lost to war.