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Interpreter

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ISBN-10: 0226424251

ISBN-13: 9780226424255

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Alice Kaplan

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No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Elysees. But one of the least-known stories from that era is also one of the ugliest chapters in the history of Jim Crow. In "The Interpreter," celebrated author Alice Kaplan recovers this story both as eyewitnesses first saw it, and as it still haunts us today. The American Army executed 70 of its own soldiers between 1943 and 1946--almost all of them black, in an army that was overwhelmingly white. Through the French interpreter Louis Guilloux's eyes, Kaplan narrates two different trials:…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Liberation
Plumaudan
Occupation and Resistance
The Liberation
The Interpreter
James Hendricks
United States Versus Private James E. Hendricks
The Incident
The Court-Martial
The Case Against James Hendricks
Noemie Bignon's Testimony
The Defense
Hendricks's Commanding Officer
The Hanging
Verdicts
United States Versus Captain George P. Whittington
Lesneven
George Whittington
The Investigation
The Case Against George Whittington
George Whittington's Testimony
The Aftermath
Whittington's Peace
History and Memory
Departure
OK, Joe
The Question
After the Liberation Epilogue
A Visit to Plumaudan
Soldier Trouble
A Resting Place for James Hendricks
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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