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A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home

Door Nelson. Peter N.

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#329085-ZA13
Titel	A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Auteur	Nelson. Peter N.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : BasicCivitas
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	0465003176
ISBN13	9780465003174
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below -- better than when the shells exploded in the trenches . . . In A More Unbending Battle, journalist and author Pete Nelson chronicles the little-known story of the 369th Infantry Regiment -- the first African-American regiment mustered to fight in WWI. Recruited from all walks of Harlem life, the regiment had to fight alongside the French because America's segregation policy prohibited them from fighting with white U. S. soldiers. Despite extraordinary odds and racism, the 369th became one of the most successful -- and infamous -- regi... (Lees verder)ments of the war. The Harlem Hellfighters, as their enemies named them, spent longer than any other American unit in combat, were the first Allied unit to reach the Rhine, and showed extraordinary valor on the battlefield, with many soldiers winning the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. Replete with vivid accounts of battlefield heroics, A More Unbending Battle is the thrilling story of the dauntless Harlem Hellfighters.
Pagina's	291
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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