Kaplan, Alice Yaeger

The Interpreter [WW II Racial Injustice]

New York: Free Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. 9.25 inches tall; 240 pages with Chapter Notes, Acknowledgements  and Index. Unread; Unopened.

This elegantly written, solidly researched, articulate history is well suited for students who want to understand the tragedy of America's racial past. In the World War II European Theater, 55 of the 70 American servicemen executed for capital crimes were black-in an army less than 9 percent African American.

Draws on the account of World War II French political novelist and court interpreter Louis Guilloux, who witnessed general Patton's example-setting executions of seventy American troops, many of whom the interpreter believed were condemned because of their race.

Item #18084
ISBN: 0743254244

Price: $21.95