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The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, by award-winning historian and civil rights expert Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 A 2022 Book of the Year from TIME , Publishers Weekly , Booklist , and more More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units while waging a dual battle against inequality in the very country for which they were laying down their lives. The stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the Good War fought by the Greatest Generation. And yet without their sacrifices, the United States could not have won the war. Half American is World War II history as youve likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black military heroes and civil rights icons such as Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the leader of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, who fought to open the Air Force to Black pilots; Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans; p

Author

Matthew F. Delmont

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781984880413

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.8 / 5 (226 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14