Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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With a great eye for narrative, historian Chris Bray (himself a former soldier)
tells the sweeping story of military justice from the institution of the
court martial in the earliest days of the Republic to contemporary arguments
over how to use military courts to try foreign terrorists or soldiers accused of
sexual assault. Bray recounts the stories of famous American court martials,
including those involving President Andrew Jackson, Gen. William Tecumseh
Sherman, Lt. Jackie Robinson, and Pvt. Eddie Slovik; he explores how encounters
of freed slaves with the military justice system during the Civil War anticipated
the Civil Rights movement; and he explains how the Uniform Code of
Military Justice came about after World War II. Throughout, he shows that the
separate justice system of the armed forces has often served as a proxy for
America’s ongoing arguments over equality, privacy, discrimination, security,
and liberty.