Name: Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes (en Inglés)
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Author: Linda Hervieux
ISBN: 9781445686615

portada Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Amberley Publishing

Autor

Linda Hervieux

Categoría

Biografías y Memorias

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781445686615

Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes (en Inglés)

Linda Hervieux (Autor) · Amberley Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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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.