Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

Potter, Lou;Miles, William;Rosenblum, Nina

ISBN 10: 0151512833 / ISBN 13: 9780151512836

Published by Harcourt, New York, 1992

About this Item

Oversized 303pp including index The story of the 761st Tank Battalion on the front line as a spearhead for General Patton's Third Army and the black soldiers role.

Seller Inventory # 71025

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
• Publisher: Harcourt, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151512833
• ISBN 13: 9780151512836
• Binding: Cloth Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Military History

About this title

Synopsis

Follows a group of young black soldiers who, in the midst of the fierce racial eruptions of a pre-civil rights America, were called to Europe to fight the Nazis. 35,000 first printing. TV tie-in.

Reviews

Companion volume to an upcoming PBS special, this work recounts the tragic saga of the 761st Tank Battalion, whose African American personnel trained for two years in the racist backwaters of the South, made a major contribution to Gen. George Patton's Third Army in the WW II European campaigns, then returned to the U.S. after the war to find that discrimination against them had grown worse. The 761st's military record is impressive. The battalion fought farther east than any other U.S. unit (but was prevented from making the historic link-up with the Red Army, a ceremony reserved for white troops), and led the way for U.S. forces in the liberation of Jewish survivors at Dachau and Buchenwald. In the saddest irony of all, the authors (all New York City film producers) describe how the African Americans received a warm welcome in England and from German civilians during occupation duty, and as a result were roundly resented by their white comrades in arms. Photos.
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