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Eric Foner: Military Racism, 2 March 2023
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War Two at Home and Abroad
by Matthew F. Delmont.
Viking, 374 pp., £25.69, October 2022,978 1 9848 8039 0 Show More
by Matthew F. Delmont.
Viking, 374 pp., £25.69, October 2022,
An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
by Beth Bailey.
North Carolina, 360 pp., £36.95, May,978 1 4696 7326 4 Show More
by Beth Bailey.
North Carolina, 360 pp., £36.95, May,
“... to become involved in combat in faraway places.Two new books challenge these ideas. After reading Matthew F. Delmont’s Half American, the greatest generation, or at least its white component, seems considerably diminished. Although more than a million African Americans served in the armed forces during the Second World ... ”
