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My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
Carolyn Ross Johnston
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Description for My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
Hardcover. " My Father s War "tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II." Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston. Carolyn Ross Johnston draws ... Read more
My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston. Carolyn Ross Johnston draws ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817317683
SKU
V9780817317683
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Carolyn Ross Johnston
Carolyn Ross Johnston is a professor of American studies and history at Eckerd College. She is the author of Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907 and Jack London: An American Radical?
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