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Zusatztext "Buy this and get ready to hang on to your seats! A gripping true-life trial. I loved it." Informationen zum Autor Douglas Waller is a senior correspondent for Time , and before that was with Newsweek . He is the author or coauthor of six previous books, including the national bestseller Big Red , The Commandos , and Air Warriors . He lives in Annandale, Virginia, with his wife and has three children. Klappentext A Question of Loyalty plunges into the seven-week Washington trial of Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, the hero of the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and the man who proved in 1921 that planes could sink a battleship. In 1925 Mitchell was frustrated by the slow pace of aviation development, and he sparked a political firestorm, accusing the army and navy high commands -- and by inference the president -- of treason and criminal negligence in the way they conducted national defense. He was put on trial for insubordination in a spectacular court-martial that became a national obsession during the Roaring Twenties.Uncovering a trove of new letters, diaries, and confidential documents, Douglas Waller captures the drama of the trial and builds a rich and revealing biography of Mitchell. Zusammenfassung A Question of Loyalty plunges into the seven-week Washington trial of Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell! the hero of the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and the man who proved in 1921 that planes could sink a battleship. In 1925 Mitchell was frustrated by the slow pace of aviation development! and he sparked a political firestorm! accusing the army and navy high commands -- and by inference the president -- of treason and criminal negligence in the way they conducted national defense. He was put on trial for insubordination in a spectacular court-martial that became a national obsession during the Roaring Twenties. Uncovering a trove of new letters! diaries! and confidential documents! Douglas Waller captures the drama of the trial and builds a rich and revealing biography of Mitchell. ...
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Douglas C. Waller is the diplomatic correspondent for TIME magazine. Before joining TIME in 1994, he was a defense and foreign policy correspondent for Newsweek. Before joining Newsweek in 1988, he spend 8 years working in the U.S. Congress, for Rep. Edward J. Markey and Sen. William Proxmire. He is the author of THE COMMANDOS: The Inside Story of America's Secret Soldiers and AIR WARRIORS: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot. He holds a B.A. in English from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Urban Administration from the University of North Carolina.
