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Forgotten
- The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes
Engelsk Paperback
Forgotten
- The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes
Engelsk Paperback

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Forgotten is an extraordinary blend of military and social history – a story that pays tribute to the valour of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day.In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive. The nation’s highest decoration was not given to black soldiers in the Second World War.Drawing on newly uncovered military records and dozens of original interviews with surviving members of the 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux tells the story of these heroic men. In England and Europe, they discovered freedom they had not known in a homeland that treated them as second-class citizens – experiences they carried back to America, fuelling the budding civil rights movement.In telling the story of the Battalion, Hervieux offers a vivid account of the tension between racial politics and national service in wartime America, and a moving narrative of human bravery and perseverance in the face of injustice.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781445686615
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1445686619
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 feb 2019
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
131mm
Forlag:
Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge