FORGOTTEN Paperback - 2016
by Hervieux, Linda
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Description
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- Title FORGOTTEN
- Author Hervieux, Linda
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks
- Date 2016-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0062313800.G
- ISBN 9780062313805 / 0062313800
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - History
- Dewey Decimal Code B
About Bonita California, United States
From the rear cover
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 World War II.
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 charged with an extraordinary mission, whose contributions to one of the most celebrated events in modern history have been overlooked. Members of the 320th and thousands of other African Americans were sent abroad to fight for liberties denied them at home. In England and throughout Europe, these soldiers discovered freedom they had not known in a homeland that treated them as second-class citizens--experiences they carried back to America, fueling the budding civil rights movement.
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.
