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Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Author: Charlene Hanson Jordan
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Category : Elgin (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Author: Gregory A. Freeman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 023012027X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Trial of World War II. As the tide of World War II turned, a hitherto unknown incident set a precedent for how we would bring wartime crimes to justice: In August 1944, the 9- man crew of an American bomber was forced to bail out over Germany. As their captors marched them into Rüsselsheim, a small town recently bombed to smithereens by Allies, they were attacked by an angry mob of civilians--farmers, shopkeepers, railroad workers, women, and children. With a local Nazi chief at the helm, they assaulted the young Americans with stones, bricks, and wooden clubs. They beat them viciously and left them for dead at the nearby cemetery. It could have been another forgotten tragedy of the war. But when the lynching was briefly mentioned in a London paper a few months later, it caught the eye of two Army majors, Luke Rogers and Leon Jaworski. Their investigation uncovered the real human cost of the war: the parents and a newlywed wife who agonized over the fate of the men, and the devastating effect of modern warfare on civilian populations. Rogers and Jaworski put the city of Rüsselsheim on trial, insisting on the rule of law even amidst the horrors of war. Drawing from trial records, government archives, interviews with family members, and personal letters, highly-acclaimed military historian Gregory A. Freeman brings to life for the first time the dramatic story. Taking the reader to the scene of the crime and into the homes of the crew, he exposes the stark realities of war to show how ordinary citizens could be drawn to commit horrific acts of wartime atrocities, and the far-reaching effects on generations.

Author: Dr. Mark E. Williams
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664139680
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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The Crossroad, a book based on a cycle of healing and returning to our first love. Instructing us to teach, preach and reach out in healing one another all over the world. It’s time for all to band together in unity and love because all lives matter

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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1292

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Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Jack Hamann
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565128079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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On a hot August night in 1944, a soldier’s body was discovered hanging by a rope from a cable spanning an obstacle course at Seattle’s Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivotto, one of the thousands of Italian prisoners of war captured and brought to America. The murder stunned the nation and the international community. Under pressure to respond quickly, the War Department convened a criminal trial at the fort, charging three African American soldiers with the lynching and firstdegree murder of Private Olivotto. Forty other soldiers were charged with rioting, accused of storming the Italian barracks on the night of the murder. All forty-three soldiers were black. There was no evidence implicating any of these men. Leon Jaworski, later the lead prosecuter at the Watergate trial, was appointed to prosecute the case and seek the death penalty for three men who were most assuredly innocent. Through his access to previously classified documents and the information gained from extensive interviews, journalist Jack Hamann tells the whole story behind World War II’s largest army court-martial—a story that raises important questions about how justice is carried out when a country is at war.

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ISBN: 9780970521460
Category : Elgin (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 607

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A history of the people and towns of the Lauderdale County, Alabama region beginning in the 1700's through 2003. Individual narratives, historical documents, maps and photographs compiled by residents of the area.