
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Execution of Private Slovik

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Eddie Slovik
		Eddie Slovik, a private in the United States Army, was the the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
		Slovik was court-martialed for desertion under fire and sentenced to death by firing squad.
		The story of his execution was made into a motion picture with actor Martin Sheen in the role of Private Slovik.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ed/Eddie_Slovik.html (166 words)

	Eddie Slovik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slovik was charged with desertion to avoid hazardous duty and court martialled on November 11, 1944.
		Slovik was buried in the Oise-Aisne Cemetery in Fère-en-Tardenois alongside ninety-four other American soldiers executed for crimes such as rape and murder.
		The Execution of Private Slovik by William Bradford Huie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Slovik (917 words)

	The Execution of Private Slovik - Synopsis - Moviefone
		In 1945, private Eddie Slovik, a "born loser" who made no secret of his desire to escape the army in any way possible, became the first American to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
		After a series of convoluted negotiations, Levinson and Link were finally able to put The Execution of Private Slovik on the small screen on March 13, 1974 (Albert Maltz, upset that the pair had decided upon a strict "no villains" policy in their adaptation, washed his hands of the whole affair).
		It is made clear throughout the film that no one, neither the military brass nor Slovik himself, truly believed that the private would ever face a firing squad; the usual custom was to postpone the execution until after the war, then reduce the sentence to a long prison term.
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-execution-of-private-slovik/1011090/synopsis (442 words)

	The Execution of Eddie Slovik by Laurence M. Vance
		Slovik faced impending death in The Battle of Hürtgen Forest, where the American army suffered 24,000 casualties during the battle and an additional 9,000 casualties due to fatigue, illness, or friendly fire.
		After Slovik’s request to be reassigned from the front lines to the rear was refused, he deserted, voluntarily surrendered, and wrote that he would run away again if sent into combat.
		Slovik’s life and death were recounted in the 1954 book The Execution of Private Slovik, by William Bradford Huie.
	www.lewrockwell.com /vance/vance34.html (879 words)

	The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik
		On Jan. 31, 1945, Hamtramck-born Eddie Slovik was executed by firing a squad near the village of Ste-Marie aux Mines for the crime of desertion.
		Slovik had been classified 4F because of his prison record, but was reclassifed 1A during a military manpower shortage and received his draft notice shortly after the couple's first wedding anniversary.
		Slovik made it clear he did not consider himself a fighting man. He feared weapons so much that his drill instructors had to furnish him with dummy grenades and escort him through the infiltration course.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=103&category=people (1316 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Execution of Private Slovik: Livres en anglais: William Bradford Huie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Refusing to fight, Slovik was arrested, court martialed, and condemned to death.
		In The Execution of Private Slovik, considered to be among the best investigative books ever written, William Bradford Huie reconstructs this entire story in order to find out what made Eddie Slovik an unlikely pacifist and why the U.S. Army decided to cover up the affair.
		Slovik seemed resigned to his fate and, despite a written plea for clemency, Eisenhower approved the sentence.
	www.amazon.fr /Execution-Private-Slovik-William-Bradford/dp/1594160031 (674 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The Example of Private Slovik
		Slovik’s defense counsel, a young staff captain, was not an attorney, but he had served on previous courts-martial.
		The execution was carried out on January 31, in a walled-in garden of an estate in a small town in eastern France, before a large group of military witnesses.
		Private Slovik’s remains were removed to America and buried in his hometown in 1987.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1987/6/1987_6_97.shtml (5539 words)

	Eddie Slovik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eddie Slovik, a private in the United States Army, was the last U.S. solider to be executed for desertion.
		Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander, personally ordered the execution during the closing days of World War II to deter other potential deserters.
		In 1987, 42 after Slovik's execution, his remains were returned to Michigan and reburied next to his wife Antoinette.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Slovik.html (146 words)

	Execution of Private Slovik, Is It Time He Was Pardoned?.............Two Spirit
		Slovik was sent to Europe as a rifleman.
		Slovik's trial, the paper he signed was the primary evidence against him.
		They could have given him some other type of position, but instead they charge him and execute him..not for example in my opinion, but to prove a point..the point being that he was called up because it was probable that he would die anyway, and since he wasn't willing to fight..they killed him...tragic case.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm407254.html (765 words)

	The Execution of Private Slovik by Dell Pub Co
		The Execution of Private Slovik by Dell Pub Co A fine depiction of the arbitrary "justice" of wartime
		Although I believe that no human is fit to be a soldier, we are made for far better things, the drafting of a man like Eddie Slovik shows that arbitrariness of the draft of WWII that lead to the militarization of thousands of men who would not be stable under combat circumstances.
		Yes, he was the only soldier executed for desertion since 1864, and yes, there may have been more egregious examples of cowardice, but Slovik took the decisions that led to his fate.
	www.law-books.info /stuff-0440123763.html (1366 words)

	Slovik execution haunts after 60 years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Slovik was buried in a numbered grave in the criminals' section of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France, among 95 American soldiers who had been hanged for violent crimes such as rape and murder.
		Antoinette Slovik was told merely that her husband had been killed in the European Theater.
		Slovik had fled combat in hopes of spending the war in "the relative safety of the stockade," the panel wrote.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1333043/posts (3926 words)

	Westholme Publishing - The Execution of Private Slovik
		For Slovik was more than a 'coward.' He not only did not want to die but he did not want to kill, and one must look far in literature for a figure so moving as Private Slovik wandering about Europe not with bullets in his cartridge belt but with writing paper.
		One of those draftees was 24-year-old Eddie Slovik, a petty thief from Detroit who had spent his youth in and out of reform schools.
		In The Execution of Private Slovik, considered to be among the best investigative books ever written, William Bradford Huie reconstructs this entire story with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army in order to find out what made Eddie Slovik an unlikely pacifist and why the affair was covered up.
	www.westholmepublishing.com /privateslovik.html (591 words)

	The Morning News: Etcetera : Henbest Took Private Slovik's Confession
		Slovik refused to take the confession back and, at that time, Henbest and 1st Lt. Wayne Hurd recorded the statement.
		Antoinette Slovik was told simply that her husband died in the European Theater.
		Slovik was buried under a numbered headstone in the criminal section of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France.
	www.nwaonline.net /articles/2006/07/17/etcetera/01frontlines.txt (756 words)

	CMs
		The Execution of Private Slovik — 1970 Preface
		The Execution of Private Slovik — 1984 Preface
		The Execution of Private Slovik — 1970 Epilogue
	library.osu.edu /sites/rarebooks/finding/Huie.html (1010 words)

	The Execution of Private Slovik - Moviefone
		Synopsis: In 1945, private Eddie Slovik, a "born loser" who made no secret of his desire to escape the army in any way possible, became the first American to...
		The film's most famous scene, in which Slovik nervously repeats his "Hail Marys" as the hood is...
		The Execution of Private Slovik (1974) (TV) The Execution of Private Slovik on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-execution-of-private-slovik/1011090/main (175 words)

	Coonce's Gift Cottage: Send Flowers: The Execution of Private Slovik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		My argument is with the system that drafted this guy in the first place and the system that made him unique in the execution of sentence.
		Was Eddie Slovik the worst case of desertion in the entire war?
		Eddie Slovik was a truly brave man who stood up for what he believed in, even through death.
	www.cooncesgiftcottage.com /Flowers-142709-6302161401-The_Execution_of_Private_Slovik.html (1222 words)

	The Execution of Private Slovik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Execution of Private Slovik is an American made-for-television movie that aired on NBC on March 13, 1974.
		The film told the story of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
		The film starred Martin Sheen as Private Slovik for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Drama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Execution_of_Private_Slovik (200 words)

	Amazon.com: The Execution of Private Slovik: Books: William Bradford Huie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		ON A red-and-gold autumn afternoon in 1953 I drove northeast from Paris through the "Marne country," toward those two little river valleys, the Oise and the Aisne, where already in this war-tortured, half-spent century, two waves of Americans, a generation apart, have done battle for the causes of freedom.
		Private Number Plates at National Number — UK residents only.
		The Execution of Private Slovik by William Bradford Huie $11.66
	www.amazon.com /Execution-Private-Slovik-William-Bradford/dp/1594160031 (1748 words)

	The Deserter Study Guide by Norman Beim: Historical Context
		The play is based upon the actual execution of Private Eddie D. Slovik, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion during World War II.
		The execution of Private Slovik took place on January 31, 1945, during the final months of the war.
		They ain't never shot anybody." The soldier, who is based on the real-life Slovik, is shocked that he is going to be killed for trying to avoid fighting.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-deserter/hist.html (179 words)

	Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Produced and written by Link and the late Richard Levinson, "The Execution of Private Slovik" starred Martin Sheen in the title role and originally aired in 1974.
		"The Execution of Private Slovik" is a truly remarkable movie for television," said Newcomb.
		Following an introduction by Center for Humanities and Arts Director Betty Jean Craige, "The Execution of Private Slovik" will be screened in its entirety.
	www.peabody.uga.edu /news/pressrelease.asp?ID=72 (344 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Execution of Private Slovik
		But their honeymoon - like that of many other wartime newlyweds - was interrupted by the call to service.
		Refusing to fight, Slovik was arrested, court marshalled, and condemned to death.
		Hundreds of soldiers were tried for desertion during World War II and sentenced to die, but only Eddie Slovik paid the price, supposedly as a deterrent.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=1594160031 (266 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		USAMHI BibBiog RefBranch dv May 88 EDDIE SLOVIK A Working Bibliography Pvt Eddie Slovik became - and remains - the only U.S. soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
		Sentences were routinely commuted, but in this case execution of the sentence occurred 31 Jan 45.
		"The Execution of Private Slovik and the Punishment for Short Desertion." George Washington Law Review 30 (Jun 1962): pp.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/mil_hist_inst/s/Slovik.asc (121 words)

	Execution of Private Slovik VHS prices at Smarter.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eddie Slovik, the only American soldier to face execution for desertion since the Civil War.
		A powerful adaptation of William Bradford Huie's controversial 1954 book about Private Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
		The film explores how the government reached its decision to make Slovik face a firing squad, and dramatizes the final days of the doomed man's life.
	www.smarter.com /execution_of_private_slovik---pd--ch-4--pi-75655.html (251 words)

	Amazon.com: The Execution of Private Slovik: Video: Martin Sheen,Mariclare Costello,Ned Beatty,Gary Busey,Matt ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot Outline The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
		It was my pleasure to view The Execution of Private Slovak, I ranked it right up there with films such as 12 o'clock High and Saving Private Ryan.
		Please note that we are unable to respond directly to all feedback submitted via this form, but we'll ask you to sign in so we can contact you if needed.
	www.amazon.com /Execution-Private-Slovik-Martin-Sheen/dp/6302161401 (2361 words)

	United States
		New York, Privately printed for subscribers, 1920.* Despite the protestation that this translation of Reigen was authorized, it was pirated.
		The New York Court of Special Sessions convicted a bookseller in 1929 for selling it, and the conviction was upheld, more on account of the introduction, of which the author had no knowledge, than of the text itself.
		To put thought in leash to the average conscience of the time is perhaps tolerable, but to fetter it by the necessities of the lowest and least capable seems a fatal policy." The Cockburn decision has most recently been reversed in England also.
	spencer.lib.ku.edu /exhibits/bannedbooks/unitedstates.html (3352 words)

	sell.com classifieds : THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK for sale (22JBLR)
		The seller has specified a fixed price for this ad and is not considering offers.
		The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
		Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
	cyber.sell.com /22JBLR (106 words)

	The execution of Private Slovik the hitherto secret story of the only American soldier since 1864 to be shot for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The execution of Private Slovik the hitherto secret story of the only American soldier since 1864 to be shot for desertion - William Bradford Huie (Author) (ISBN B00005VUCH) - buy online now.
		You'll find The execution of Private Slovik the hitherto secret story of the only American soldier since 1864 to be shot for desertion by William Bradford Huie (Author) ISBN B00005VUCH here.
		Give The execution of Private Slovik the hitherto secret story of the only American soldier since 1864 to be shot for desertion by William Bradford Huie (Author) as a present.
	www.fuerstpuecklerpark.com /klm_B00005VUCH.html (213 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Execution of Private Slovik at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mary Queen of Scots is Told of Her Imminent Execution by D. Raab Giclee Pri...
		Posters prints framed art Execution for Heresy at the Council of Constance:...
		Additional information on Execution of Private Slovik or other products.
	www.epinions.com /mvie_mu-1034180 (110 words)

	The Execution of Private Slovik
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for The Execution of Private Slovik to receive a rating.
		Click here to be the first to post a message on this forum.
		Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, and Jennifer Hudson headline the film adaptation of the Broadway musical about the backstage drama within a world-famous girl group.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/execution_of_private_slovik (353 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)