E-audiobook
In time of war Hitler's terrorist attack on America
Record details
- ISBN: 0786154314 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780786154319 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 14:22:09. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Raymond Todd. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 206517 KB; MP3 file size: 404753 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 -- United States Sabotage -- United States -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany Nazi Saboteurs Trial, Washington, D.C., 1942 |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
It's a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on American shores on a sabotage mission devised by Hitler. When one of them, a hapless U.S. citizen, betrayed the mission to the FBI, Roosevelt appointed a special military tribunal to authorize the death penalty omitting proper legal procedure. Army colonel Kenneth Royall, a respected lawyer charged with defending the saboteurs, courageously fought the lost cause for the saboteurs' Constitutional rights. More than sixty years later, George W. Bush, in the wake of 9/11, cited Roosevelt's act as a precedent for indefinitely imprisoning U.S. citizens and suspected "enemy combatants" without charge. O'Donnell illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis.
