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It's a true story that reads like gripping fiction: in June 1942, eight German terrorists landed by submarine on the shores of Long Island and Florida with a mission to blow up major buildings and railroad hubs throughout the United States. "In Time of War" tells the dramatic story of how they were ultimately betrayed by one of their own, tried by a special military tribunal appointed by FDR, and zealously defended by an army colonel. Six of the eight were executed. The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently upheld the president's power to order the military trial that passed the death sentences.

More than sixty years later, President George W. Bush, in the wake of the deadly 9/11 terrorist attacks, cited Roosevelt's act as precedent for imprisoning over six hundred suspected "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and indefinitely detaining U.S. citizens suspected of terrorist activities. In a riveting account of this remarkable episode in America's history (much of it based on documents never before available), O'Donnell, one of the country's leading trial lawyers, illustrates the parallels between then and now, offering a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis.

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Reads like a spy novel, only it's all true.

"The Nazi saboteur case is a blot on our law, and is being used by the Bush administration now to defend its attacks on civil liberties." --Anthony Lewis
"O'Donnell is a master storyteller who vividly brings to life the trying times of World War II and a nation gripped by fear. " --Johnnie Cochran
"Reads like a spy novel, only it's all true." --David Cole, author of "Enemy Aliens"
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A forgotten episode of World War II, the Supreme Court case it sparked, and the precedent it set for the Bush Administration's Secret Military Tribunals in Guantanamo Bay. Author reputation: Pierce O'Donnell has been selected by the National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." He has attended the Guantanamo, Hamdi, and Padilla hearings and will be a "go to" authority in 2005 when the Guantanamo Bay military trials of the first group of six persons and the Hamdi and Padilla public trials take place. Contemporary relevance: last chapter devoted to discussing Supreme Court's decisions in Guantanamo and Hamdi/Padilla cases; these cases use the Supreme Court case about the German terrorists (ex parte Quirin) as a precendent for the Imprisonment of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at the Guantanamo Naval base in Cuba 60 years later. The amazing story of eight German terrorists dropped off by two submarines on the shores of Long Island and Florida in 1944. Their mission was to blow up major railroad hubs, aluminum plants, and, if they had time, Macy's.

As we move toward trials challenging the legitimacy of the Bush administration's use of detentions in Guantanamo and elsewhere, Roosevelt's response to the captured Germans - military tribunals, a secret trial, and hasty executions -- offers a cautionary tale of the danger of unchecked executive power in a time of crisis. The best kind of historical non-fiction: a rollicking narrative driven by the personality of the central character: the brilliant trial attorney Kenneth Royall, designated to represent the Germans, who took on the President of the United States and the Supreme Court.

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  • PublisherTHE NEW PRESS
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1565849582
  • ISBN 13 9781565849587
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