Lichfield
Subtitle: the U.S. Army on trial
By: Jack Gieck.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Akron, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: United States. Army -- Prisons -- England -- Lichfield.; United States. Army -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.; Trials (Military offenses) -- England -- London.; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States.; Prisoners -- Crimes against -- England -- Lichfield.
Description: At the end of World War II, a series of courts-martial probed the infamous events at a U.S. Army replacement depot near Lichfield, England, a compound of buildings that gave off a Dickensian gloom, characterized by The Stars and Stripes as "a concentration camp run by Americans for American soldiers." As a young lieutenant on leave in London, the author attended the first sessions of a military trial that could rival in dramatic intensity such films as A Few Good Men.

Forty years later, after extensive research and interviews, Jack Gieck tells this story of low courtroom schemes and high moral inquiry, a clash between strong personalities and stronger principles that intrigued him then and will fascinate the reader today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277).