On American Soil

On American Soil : How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
by Jack Hamann

On a hot August night in 1944, a soldierā??s body was discovered hanging by a rope from a cable spanning an obstacle course at Seattleā??s Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivotto, one of the thousands of Italian prisoners of war captured and brought to America. Through his access to previously classified documents and information gained from extensive interviews, journalist Hamann tells the story behind World War II's largest army court-martial, where three African-American soldiers were charged with the lynching and murder of an Italian prisoner of war.