GI Rights and Army Justice: The Draftee's Guide to Military Life and Law
by Rivkin, Robert S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dj
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1970). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice tight clean copy, very slight bumping to a couple of corners; jacket shows light surface we Openly labeling the U.S. Army "an oppressive force," the intent of this book was to inform the ordinary GI "why the Army subjects him to the indignities, brutalities, and injustices that he used to associate only with totalitarian regimes." Toward this purpose, the author "has drawn upon an extensive array of factuall, legal, sociological and psychological materials, blended them with his own experiences in the Army, and produced in one volume both a clear and constructive soldier's guide to survival and a stinging indictment of American militarism." A Vietnam-era classic, and a book whose publication would have been literally unimaginable during any previous American war. The author was an attorney who was himself drafted in 1967, and was stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana (where he provided legal advice to young trainees bound for Vietnam), and later in South Korea, where he defended soldiers in special courts-martial. .
Reviews
On Jan 28 2024, a reader said:
I picked up a copy of this book, fresh off the press in 1971, about 6 months into my stint with the US Navy during the Viet Nam War. It proved to be an invaluable guide legal during bout with the military in my struggle for recognition as conscientious objector. Without it, I wouldn't have been able to distinguish between the truth and the lies and half-truths the military tried to feed me about my rights and the way the system worked. In particular, I benefitted from knowing, in advance, about the legal distinctions between and consequences of simple AWOL and desertion, and between when one is subject to (or entitled to) Article 15 v. summary v. special v. general courts martial and the risks, benefits, privileges, and limitations of each. This book kept me out the brig and from adverse reassignment. It enabled me to force the battalion commander to unbury and reluctantly process my conscientious objector application. Even today, this book should be issued to every recruit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20151
- Title
- GI Rights and Army Justice: The Draftee's Guide to Military Life and Law
- Author
- Rivkin, Robert S
- Illustrator
- (dj drawing) Jules Feiffer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1970)
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Vietnam War, United States Army, Military Life
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