The Execution of Private Slovik
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Published: October 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781594160035
Subjects: Biography: general; European history: Second World War; True stories: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military - United States; History; History - Military / War; Military; Europe; USA; Military - World War II
First sentence: ON A red-and-gold autumn afternoon in 1953 I drove northeast from Paris through the "Marne country," toward those two little river valleys, the Oise and the Aisne, where already in this war-tortured, half-spent century, two waves of Americans, a generation apart, have done battle for the causes of freedom.