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001 2015043554
003 DLC
005 20151110081751.0
008 151109s2016 ncu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780786496808 (softcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
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050 00 $aD804.U5$bA44 2016
082 00 $a940.54/0508913044361$223
100 1 $aAlford, Kenneth D.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAmerican crimes and the liberation of Paris :$brobbery, rape and murder by renegade GIs, 1944-1947 /$cKenneth D. Alford.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe German capture of Paris -- D-Day, June 6, 1944 -- The 29th Machine Records Unit -- The hangings -- The liberation of Paris -- Paris, city of lights -- The officer's formal mess -- The mess and billeting office of the Hotel Astra -- The black market -- Paris detention barracks -- The Vincennes gang -- The Channel Islands crash -- The Voltaire Gang -- The Lola murder -- The 2nd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment -- The Million-Dollar Battalion -- The arrest of men of the Million-Dollar Battalion -- The cigarette trials -- A review of the trials -- The execution of Private Slovik -- Postwar Paris -- Martinez's early years -- Martinez returns to Germany -- Springtime in Paris -- Murder in La Place Pigalle -- The trials -- Mannheim Prison: maximum security -- The inevitable end.
520 $a"The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians. After the cheering stopped, American deserters and their French cohorts violently exploited the city with the ruthless efficiency of the Chicago mobs of the 1920s. This book details the exploits of these "liberators" and identifies both French and American offenders"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAtrocities$zFrance$zParis.
650 0 $aMilitary offenses$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWar crimes$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aOrganized crime$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMilitary atrocities$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aParis (France)$xHistory$y1940-1944.