Taps for a Jim Crow Army : Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II [1 ed.] 9780813148991, 9780813118512

When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers In World War II Britain 9780755625888

An important chapter in the history of World War II is here explored for the first-time -- how the arrival of the black

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Just Call Me Soldier Boy: World War II Letters from PFC. Andy Bergner, Patton's Third Army

On the fiftieth anniversary of VE Day I was given an amazing historical document. Inconspicuously bound in a blue denim

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Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South 9780300244847

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical resea

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The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects 9781501739804

In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citiz

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The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects 1501739808, 9781501739804

"This book tells the story of the Great Patriotic War via objects from spoons to tanks. It was the uniform world of

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Letters from "somewhere ..." : a memoir from World War II 9780967968605, 0967968607

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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America 9780520940284

Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a stri

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Schooling Jim Crow 9780813936154

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Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich 9780823290918

Frank and Albert Dietrich were identical twins whose lives took very different directions during World War II. Drafted i

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Letters from the Boys: Wisconsin World War I Soldiers Write Home 9780870208522, 9780870208515

Words from the Wisconsin boys manning the trenches. On the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the flood of American

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