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Titel: The Unknown Soldiers Zustand: New Autor: Arthur E. Barbeau, Bernard C. Nalty, Florette Henri Produktart: Taschenbuch ISBN-10: 0306806940 EAN: 9780306806940 ISBN: 9780306806940 Verlag: Da Capo Press Inc Genre: Society & Culture Thematik: Social Sciences, History, Military History, Law & Politics Release date: 22/03/1996 Description: During World War I 370,000 African Americans laboured, fought, and died to make the world safe for a democracy that refused them equal citizenship at home. The irony was made more bitter as black troops struggled with the racist policies of the American military itself. The overwhelming majority were assigned to labour companies those selected for combat were under-trained, poorly equipped, ad commanded by white officers who insisted on black inferiority. Still, African Americans performed admirably under fire: the 369th Infantry regiment was in continuous combat loner than any other American unit, and was the first Allied regiment to cross the Rhine in the offensive against Germany. The Unknown Soldiers , the only full-scale examination of the subject, chronicles the rigid segregation the limited opportunities for advancement the inadequate training, food, medical attention, housing, and clothing the verbal harassment and physical abuse, including lynchings the ingratitude, unemployment, and unprecedented racial violence that greeted their return. The Unknown Soldiers is an unforgettable, searing study of those wartime experiences that forced African Americans to realize that equality and justice could never be earned in Jim Crow America, but only wrested from its strangling grip. Sprache: Englisch Herstellungsland und -region: US Höhe: 227mm Länge: 153mm Breite: 20mm Gewicht: 436g
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