The lack of courage and impartiality of Historian during the occupation leave us a lot of unanswered question about the behavior of the haitian elite. Jean Price Mars tells it as it was. He tells us from primary sources how the occupation was a turn over of the indigenious power to a power that control by the elite and the imperialism. If you want to know why the yankees destroyed the haitian popular indigenious army, why the americans occupied the Haitian National Bank until 1948, it is the Book to read. You will learn everything you want to know from a famous writer.