Ebook: A more unbending battle the Harlem Hellfighters' struggle for freedom in WWI and equality at home
Author: France. Armée, Nelson Peter
- Tags: World War 1914-1918--Regimental histories--United States, World War 1914-1918--Participation African American, African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964, Armed Forces--African American troops, Military participation--African American, Regimental histories, African Americans--Social conditions, History, Livres électroniques, United States. -- Army. -- Infantry Regiment 369th, United States. -- Army -- African American troops -- History -- 20th century, France. -- Armée -- African American troops --
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Basic Civitas
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
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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...
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