Title: Lichfield
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry, Crimes against, England, History, Lichfield, Prisoners, Prisons, Trials (Military offenses), United States, United States. Army
Places: England, Lichfield, London, United States
Time periods: World War, 1939-1945
LC classification: KF7641 .G54 1997