Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial

by Elizabeth Lutes Hillman

Book Overview

From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation. The post-World War II American military, newly permanent, populated by draftees as well as volunteers, and asked to fight communism around the world, was also the subject of a major criminal justice reform. By examining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118043
• ISBN13: 9780691118048
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"