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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
French L MacLean |
ISBN: | 076434577X 9780764345777 |
OCLC Number: | 861734341 |
Description: | 352 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Historical and legal underpinnings -- The 96 -- A closer look. |
Responsibility: | colonel French L. MacLean, United States Army, (ret.) ; with a foreword and legal analysis by T.G. Bolen. |
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Abstract:
"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an obscure, secret plot at an American military cemetery in France"--Author's website.

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