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Summary: An American Holocaust...?
Review: I've read the 1-star reviews, which are almost vitriolic in their negation of this atrocity. They seem proof that we're a generation of the less curious and the less concerned, not to mention the truly jaded. But if you've walked the streets as a person of color, you know "The Slaughter" may indeed be fact, not emotional fiction. Truth can be stranger than fiction... AND there are many things the government (American or not) would rather not reveal. Look how we've forgotten history -- altered or not, believed or not: 6 million Jews, Eastern Europeans and homosexuals exterminated in concentration camps. And the martyrs of the 60s: Are the lives of countless civil rights workers, JFK, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Malcom X and that generation who never returned from Viet Nam, only to be remembered when a point needs to be made? How many books have been written (and negated) on a truth "better left unsaid," according to some nay-sayers? And let's not get started on the terrors in the 80s -- South Africa, Bosnia....Face it, the human beast is capable tremendous beauty and unbelieveable tragedy. The truth will out as it may.
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Summary: This is a novel: author is entitled to write from the heart
Review: Most of the reviews here are harsh and do not take into consideration that this is a novel. Fiction entitles the author to write from the heart in any way he sees fit. Ignored by most of the various reviewers, who are so quick to defend the Department of Defense, is the intense segregation and discrimination directed at black soldiers and sailors during World War II. The most poignant example of racism from that era in what we now know as the Department of Defense is told in the movie Mutiny, based on the well-documented ship explosion on July 17, 1944. Segregated black soldiers were forced to speed up while loading explosives with their bare hands, upon orders of all white officers who were betting as if they were at a race track. 350, mostly black sailors died near Richmond, CA. that day. The remaining white sailors and officers were given leave to recover. The black sailors were ordered back to work immediately-- with none of the dangerous conditions changed. Many of them refused and were found guilty of mutiny by an all-white court martial. Thurgood Marshall, who later became U.S. Supreme Court Justice, defended them. Many have spent their lives trying to have their good names cleared, and mostly they failed at that. They were patriotic black men treated like trash. If DoD were honest, it would own up to the biased circumstances of this terrible event and acknowledge the trashy way it treated its loyal black service men and women during the war. Then, novels like this would not have to be written. I don't hear these reviwers complaining about all of the fictions in Birth of a Nation, or is that more to their political liking?
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Summary: Synester,intriguing,rollercoaster of a read.
Review: Pandora's box has been opened and the contents are frightening ! Could it be true that the United States Military machine conspired against some of its own soldiers during WWII ? Conspired to such an extent as to exterminate 1200 black soldiers in an attempt to regain control of a documented uprising in the deep south? As told by Carroll Case, The Slaughter, An American Atrocity, is not only believable as fiction but as fact is gut wrenchingly scary. Told in two parts, the first section reveals the facts that Case stumbled on after a happenchance conversation with an eye witness to the proposed massacre. After thirteen years of investigation , Case has uncovered what seems to be a governmental cover-up of monumental proportions. Official military documents as well as personal letters pleading for help, indicate a southern stew ready to boil over. What do you do with 1200 misfits threatening mutiny and spoiling a good war effort ? If Cases conclusion is correct, you eradicate the obstacle and you do so where redneck justice, folklore, fact and fiction all intermingle to blur the line between reality and creative imagination. After all, its 1943, the world is at war, and in the swampy backwoods of Mississippi, no one hears you scream. Not if your property of the U.S.Military. Not if your black. The second part of the book is an intriguing tale of cover-up, murder, greed, and justice, all moving with breakneck speed, keeping this reader spellbound until the last word. Set in Mississippi, the redneck is alive and well, as is "BIG BROTHER" in this current day small town thriller. Amidst the moss covered oaks, eccentric characters from the wealthy to the classless, lurk in the shadows at every corner propelling the reader foward, hanging on everyword. With a plot rich in deception and cover-up, Case has managed to weave fact into believable fiction. The use of eyewitness accounts as well as governmental documents in section one plants a seed of reality so indelible one has trouble separating the two. Undoubtedly this work will rekindle a roaring blaze in the voice of the civil rights activests. Aided by public awareness and desire for the truth, expect intense investigations to soon follow. THIS CAN NOT BE IGNORED. Should this atrocity be proven true, we may all find ourselves questioning our leaders and once again asking...... "at what price does freedom come."
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Summary: Large Hoax
Review: The book, "The Slaughter" lacks any clear and convincing evidence that the allegations raised by the author ever occurred. This appears to be a book trading on the raw feelings of racism and the fears racism invokes. A cheap trick by the author to sell a book. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Lack of evidence ruins a potentially good book.
Review: The cover notes for Mr. Case's book speak of new evidence gathered under the Freedom of Information Act. All this "evidence" consists of ominous letters and appraisals about the racial situation at Camp Van Dorn. Instead of a well documented history of a "known" tragedy at Van Dorn, the reader is treated to a novel. Equally lacking in both the "evidence" and the novel is the name of even one dead black soldier as a result of the massacre. Nor does Mr. Case document the authenticity of his sources, especially oral reports. That something occurred at Camp Van Dorn in 1943 is widely known. But only the cheapest of conspiracy theorists can hold that a lack of physical evidence is evidence of a conspiracy. Mr. Case fumbled the ball.
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Summary: Unsubstantiated
Review: The government completed its research of the subject matter, intiated at the request of Congressman Bernie Thompson, and the information printed in this book is false. The government came to its conclusion by tracking down pay documents, personnel records, and interviews with survivors. Good read, but not true.
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Summary: Courageous Storytelling
Review: The Slaughter is by no means the work of a professional researcher or an academician. The author says so himself. Carroll Case is a businessman who had heard rumors and tales of this horrible massacre all of his life. After a conversation with an employee of his who was an eyewitness to this crime, Case spent thirteen years investigating all aspects of the story and has endured personal tragedy as a result of his curiosity. He is convinced this took place because, among other evidence, he has heard eyewitness accounts. What better affirmation could there be than video tapes of this testimony, regardless of whether the witnesses are alive today? Case brought this incident to light when no other person had the courage to do so. In his preface, he says that to write the book in the form of a novel was necessary because the facts have, to date, not been confirmed. Mr. Case offers the circumstances as he knows them to be true, and offers the rest of the world a chance to decide for themselves. This is a story written by a man passionate about his experiences and passionate about seeing the Army explain to the American people just what did go on in 1943 in Centreville, Mississippi at Camp Van Dorn. In another of my favorite books, The Gold of Exodus, Larry Williams and Bob Cornuke did not come home from Jabal al Lawz with a fortune in gold proving they found the true Mount Sinai. They came home with a conviction and a Best Seller. We don't criticize their adventure story for lack of evidence, nor should we demand that Carroll Case produce the bodies of dead soldiers. The Slaughter was convincing enough for a United States Congressman to demand an inquiry by the Secretary of Defense; something few books in this decade have done. In addition, it raised enough important questions for the NAACP to demand a full accounting from the Secretary of the Army. All within three weeks of the publication date of this book.
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Summary: Save your cash
Review: This guy is either totally deluded or on heavey narcotics. Unless your into urban legends I would pass this by.
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Summary: Here's where to get the facts on the 364th at Camp Van Dorn
Review: Those seeking the real story of the 364th Infantry at Camp Van Dorn will do well to read "A Historical Analysis of the 364th Infantry in World War II," which is the best single source of information regarding the regiment's activities during the war. A total of 3,981 officers and enlisted men served in the 364th Infantry at Camp Van Dorn. The above-mentioned text accounts for the fates of every single one of them. Each man's name, service number, unit, and discharge date is provided. Moreover, interviews were conducted with a number of 364th veterans, including CSM Richard E. Douglass, USA (Ret.), who served a total of thirty-six years in the army. All of the men virulently deny Case's story of mass murder at Camp Van Dorn. The 364th's three infantry battalions departed the camp intact for Seattle on 25 December 1943. The author's website contains an excerpt from a letter allegedly written by "Corporal Anthony J. Smirley, Jr." of H Company, 364th Inf. regarding the purported "killings." The soldier in question is actually CPL Anthony J. Snively, Service Number 13079357, who was discharged from the U.S. Army on 4 November 1945. It is interesting to note that the two staff historians from the Textual Records Branch of the National Archives who assisted Case, Richard L. Boylan and Clifford L. Snyder, state that the book is utterly false. The release of Case's book has unleashed a great deal of emotion. The best way to prove or disprove the allegation of mass murder at Camp Van Dorn is through research, not polemics. "A Historical Analysis of the 364th Infantry in World War II" does just that.
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Summary: An American Holocaust...?
Review: To all readers of this review, think through carefully the following: this is not the first nor the last coverup. Allow the truth to be exposed before denying the incident altogether. If presidential assassinations can be covered up, why can't the deaths of african-american soldiers be covered up. Especially in the 1940's when civil rights was unheard of. Regardless of the validity of Case's argument, this book is a good read. Chocked full of declassified info that should be investigated further.
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