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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War (Anglais) Relié – 27 octobre 2015

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The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history—a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.

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—Wilson Monk, a jack-of-all-trades from Atlantic City; Henry Parham, the son of sharecroppers from rural Virginia; William Dabney, an eager 17-year-old from Roanoke, Virginia; Samuel Mattison, a charming romantic from Columbus, Ohio—and thousands of other African Americans were sent abroad to fight for liberties denied them at home. In England and 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.

In telling the story of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, 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.

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Relié: 368 pages
Editeur : Harper (27 octobre 2015)
Langue : Anglais
ISBN-10: 0062313797
ISBN-13: 978-0062313799
Dimensions du produit: 15,2 x 3 x 22,9 cm
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Joel Luboff

Forgotten - A very important book that helps us remember !

3 février 2016

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This is a very important book – thoroughly researched, smoothly and concisely written, and given the advanced age of the central personalities, extremely timely. Concentrating on the life and actions of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion the book paints a wider and very vivid picture of what life was like for African American soldiers in general during World War II. Despite the outrageousness of the conditions and racist statements these people had to face daily, the author avoids polemicizing; she lets the facts speak for themselves. As I read this fascinating account, I had the eerie feeling that I should have known these facts already. These remarkable men and their stories should have been part of the narratives all along about WWII and in particular about D-Day. Instead they were brushed aside and might have stayed that way forever but for the author’s years of research and writing. Despite the title, she makes it possible for us to remember via one good read.

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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, At Home and At War

4 août 2017

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Forgotten: The Untold Story... is an excellent book, very well researched. The author has written the book with a great feeling for, and commitment to, her subject.

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Barbara Petrick

The Baloon Battalion

16 novembre 2015 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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Few Americans know anything abot the 320th Barrage Baloon Battalion or its contribution to the World War II offense. In Forgotten, Linda Hervieux not only provides a comprehensive story of the 320th--composed entirely of African American soldiers--but by placing it in the context of 20th century social history, she draws a dramatic picture of Jim Crow life and its cruelty. With a keen eye for the telling detail, she renders the background of many soldiers who risked their lives for a country that ignored their claim for equality. Based on hundreds of interviews, Hervieux points out how black soldiers were strictly segregated and mistreated while German and Italian prisoners of war were treated as friends. In the short months of their stay in Europe, the men of the 320th were treated warmly by the British population. This short term of normalcy in race relations was brought to an abrupt end when the black soldiers were returned to the strictly segregated United States military service. Hervieux recreates the drama and danger of DDay and the part the 320th played in that epic battle.
Excellently written and widely researched, Forgotten is an invaluable addition to military and social history and just a plain good read.

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James J. Fallon

it is so brilliantly written and enlightening

8 décembre 2015 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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This book is a must read, it is so brilliantly written and enlightening. I think it should be required reading in all nigh schools in the USA. The book, Forgotten isn't merely another WWII story, but the high ideals, intelligence and devotion of people before and after the war. These are human beings who gave their lives to this nation even though they were marginalized, tortured and murdered because of the color of their skin. Ms Hervieux in this book captures these men's feelings of joy and pain through survivors and family members of their treatment.

I know some may think oh no another textbook, but you would be wrong. This book is a beautifully written story of a group of brave, self-sacraficing men who saved many lives at the largest assault in modern history, individual stories of heroes true, fighting for a country they believed in. Ms Hervieux writes so well and the stories have a grand fluidity that it made you want to keep reading. I hope we see many more books from this author in the future.

These men had to fight to be able to fight, yet they were not given their due. Curtains in segregated train cars had to have closed because bigots would shot at the train cars if they saw it was filled with black soldiers. In the US they could not go to many restaurants, movies or USO's, yet they saw German and Japanese prisoners with their guards in those same establishments. However when they reach the British Isles they were welcome not as black Americans, but Americans, and the people loved them.

The book Forgotten tells the story of these heroes and sheds light on the horrors of "Jim Crow" America which is either unknown by the younger generation and forgotten by other generations. The bigotry is less than it was then, but we still have a long way to go to eradicate it as we see in the news every day now.

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Robert I. Williams

Outstanding book, absolutley loved it.

19 mars 2016 - Publié sur Amazon.com

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Loved this book. As the son of an African American WW II veteran I experienced first hand much of what was said in this book. My dad landed in Normandy D day + 3. He was truck driver and was one of the many who drove on the Redball Express. As a matter of fact when the movie "Redball Express" came out in the very early 1950's my dad, mom and my aunts went to see the movie. I remember after paying the fare to go in at the counter, we had to then walk around to the back of the theater, go up the stairs and sit in the balcony to see a war movie in which my dad had served as a soldier for a country that had never intended to honor him or acknowledge his service.

The few times that dad shared with my brother and I his experiences in France and at the Bulge I will always remember. I was stattioned in Germany myself in the late 80's and I tried to get my dad to come over so we could revisit some of the places where he was, but like was said in the book, dad said " I got away from there one time without them killing me, I'm not going to give them a second chance." So, he never came over. I think dad was proud to have been in the army, to have been a soldier, to have worn the uniform, went to war and survived, but hated the fact that he was in the "Jim Crow" Army of the United States. He never went to a reunion and only a few times did he meet again with a buddy who had served with him. Unfortunatly when those meetings occured I myself was already in service and along way from home.

Thank you so much Ms. Hervieux for writing the book. I purchase every book I can find on the African American experience in the military particulary in WW II.

Loved the book, highly recommend it.

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"I've been waiting for someone to call me for fifty ...

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"I've been waiting for someone to call me for fifty years." With that poignant opening line from Wilson Caldwell Monk, a soldier from the only African-American bataillon to storm Omaha Beach, Linda Hervieux kicks off the powerful tale of a group of men whose heroic contributions at D-Day have languished in obscurity until now. Her book sheds light on the profound challenges and deep discrimination African Americans faced in the U.S. military during the Second World War. It puts us into the center of the action as they overcome stacked odds once in Europe, where they experienced a newfound sense of freedom and showed incredible bravery in the days surrounding D-Day. The movie "Saving Private Ryan" featured no black soldiers. Reading Forgotten, you'll come away moved and agitated at the missing portrayal of African Americans in D-Day history. Skilfully written and reported, Forgotten is a must-read that at last brings their story to light.

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