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Author:

Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85272223

Title:

The interpreter / Alice Kaplan.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 240 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Subject:

Hendricks, James E.,--1923-1944--Trials, litigation, etc.
Whittington, George P.,--1913-1996--Trials, litigation, etc.
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans.
African American soldiers--France--Social conditions.
African American soldiers--History--20th century.
United States.--Army--Officers.
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--France.
Trials (Murder)--France.
Guilloux, Louis,--1899-1980.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Free Press, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-223) and index.

Contents:

Part I: Liberation: 1. Plumaudan ; 2. Occupation and Resistance ; 3. The Liberation ; 4. The Interpreter ; 5. James Hendricks -- Part II: United States Versus Private James E. Hendricks ; 6. The Incident ; 7. The Court-Martial ; 8. The Case Against James Hendricks ; 9. Noemie Bignon's Testimony ; 10. The Defense ; 11. Hendricks's Commanding Officer ; 12. The Hanging ; 13. Verdicts -- Part III: United States Versus Captain George P. Whittington ; 14. Lesneven ; 15. George Whittington ; 16. The Investigation ; 17. The Case Against George Whittington ; 18. George Whittington's Testimony ; 19. The Aftermath ; 20. Whittington's Peace -- Part IV: History and Memory ; 21. Departure ; 22. OK, Joe ; 23. The Question ; 24. After the Liberation -- Epilogue ; 25. A Visit to Plumaudan ; 26. Soldier Trouble ; 27. A Resting Place for James Hendricks.

Summary:

Offers an account by Frenchman Louis Guilloux and other eyewitnesses on how seventy African-American soldiers were tried and unjustly executed by white American soldiers during World War II between 1943 and 1946.

ISBN:

0226424251
9780226424255

OCLC:

(OCoLC)74649105

LCCN:

2006035822

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)