Articles of War (18 page)

AUTHOR
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S NOTE

Private Eddie Slovik was executed for the crime of desertion on January 31, 1945. He lay buried in France alongside convicted rapists and murderers in a grave marked only by a number until 1987, when his body was moved to his hometown of Detroit. Eddie Slovik's story was uncovered and told by the journalist and author William Bradford Huie in an excellent book,
The Execution of Private Slovik.

Copyright © 2005 by Nick Arvin

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Arvin, Nick.

Articles of war : a novel / Nick Arvin.

p. cm.

1. World War, 1939–1945—France—Fiction. 2. Americans—France—Fiction. 3. Women refugees—Fiction. 4. Cowardice—Fiction. 5. Soldiers—Fiction. 6. France—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3601.R77A89 2005

813'.6—dc22

2004050471

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