courts-martial and courts of inquiry

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courts-martial and courts of inquiry

Shot At Dawn

World War I
2011
During World War I, Canadian soldier Allan McBride, shell-shocked, unwittingly deserts from his unit in France and faces possible death by firing squad when he is arrested and court-martialed.

The interpreter

2005
Presents a comprehensive examination of injustices done to African-Americans in France from 1944 to 1946 through the testimony of Louis Guilloux, an eyewitness who acted as an interpreter at the courts-martial.

The court-martial trial of West Point cadet Johnson Whittaker

a headline court case
2001
Chronicles the events surrounding the court-martial of Johnson Whittaker, an African-American cadet at West Point Military Academy in the 1880s.

Four blind mice

2003
Detective Alex Cross, intending to resign from the Washington D.C. Police Force, agrees to take on one more case when his friend and partner John Sampson asks for his help in clearing an old Vietnam buddy who has been framed for the murders of three women.

A question of loyalty

General Billy Mitchell and the court martial that gripped the nation
2004
Examines the seven-week trial of General William "Billy" Mitchell in 1925 after he criticized the military and the government's national defense policies, particularly in the area of aviation development, and was court-martialed for insubordination.

Four blind mice

a novel
2002
Detective Alex Cross, intending to resign from the Washington D.C. Police Force, agrees to take on one more case when his friend and partner John Sampson asks for his help in clearing an old Vietnam buddy who has been framed for the murders of three women.
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