Author

Publication

1997 - University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio, Ohio

Language

English

Word Count

69,250 words, Guess

Page Count

277 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL660813M
  • ISBN-101884836275
  • OCLC Control Number36364183
  • Library of Congress Control Number97006216
  • Goodreads3242196
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  • LibraryThing9053670

Classifications

  • DDC343.73/0143
  • LCCKF7641 .G54 1997

Description

At the end of World War II, a series of courts-martial probed the infamous events at a U.S. Army replacement depot near Lichfield, England, a compound of buildings that gave off a Dickensian gloom, characterized by The Stars and Stripes as "a concentration camp run by Americans for American soldiers." As a young lieutenant on leave in London, the author attended the first sessions of a military trial that could rival in dramatic intensity such films as A Few Good Men. Forty years later, after extensive research and interviews, Jack Gieck tells this story of low courtroom schemes and high moral inquiry, a clash between strong personalities and stronger principles that intrigued him then and will fascinate the reader today.

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