Wolfsangel

- Illustrations : Non - Publisher's note :Documents the downing of an American B-24 bomber crew over Germany during WWII, the airmen's lynching by an enraged mob in the city of Rnsselsheim, and the extraordinary postwar trial that sent five civilians to the gallows. Legal procedures established at this trial by the US Army's war crimes commission set a groundbreaking precedent for the more famous Nuremburg war crimes tribunal. Nigro is professor of English literature at Kutztown University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)