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A more unbending battle : the Harlem Hellfighters' struggle for freedom in WWI and equality at home / Peter N. Nelson.
Van Pelt Library D570.33 369th .N456 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Peter, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 369th.
- United States.
- France. Armée.
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, African American.
- United States. Army--African American troops--History--20th century.
- France. Armée--African American troops--History--20th century.
- France.
- African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 291 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Civitas, [2009]
- Summary:
- 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--regiments 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465003174
- 0465003176
- OCLC:
- 191926049
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