During the night of August 14, 1944, an Italian prisoner of war was lynched on the Fot Lawton Army post in Seattle - a murder that shocked the nation and the international community. It was a time of deep segregation in the Army, and the War Department was quick to charge three African American soldiers with first-degree murder, although there was no evidence linking them to the crime. Forty other black soldiers faced lesser charges over the incident, launching one of the largest and longest Army trials of World War II. In reporting on this harrowing story of race, privilege and power, Hamann explores the most overlooked civil rights event in American history, and raises important questions about how justice is carried out when a country is at war.

Camp Florence, May 1944 --|t Fort Lawton, June 1944 --|t Mollycoddling, July 1944 --|t The life of reilly early, August 1944 --|t Riot, August 14, 1944 --|t Bad press late, August 1944 --|t Cookie, September 1944 --|t Jaworski, October 1944 --|t Beeks early, November 1944 --|t Prosecution late, November 1944 --|t Defense early, December 1944 --|t Verdict late, December 1944.