The Color of War (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
512
Utgivningsdatum
2012-05-15
Förlag
Presidio Press
Illustrationer
8 pages of b&w, 3 maps
Dimensioner
241 x 165 x 44 mm
Vikt
762 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780307461216

The Color of War

How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America

av James Campbell
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2012-05-15
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From an acclaimed World War II writer comes an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the homefront. In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it"as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." For the Americans, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of a Time magazine correspondent, Saipan was "war at its grimmest." On the night of July 17, 1944, as Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz were celebrating the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just 35 miles northeast of San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors. They toiled in obscurity loading munitions ships with ordnance essential to the US victory in Saipan. Yet instead of honoring the sacrifice these men made for their country, the Navy blamed them for the accident, and when they refused to handle ammunition again, launched the largest mutiny trial in US naval history. The Color of War, then, is the story of two battles, the one overseas and the one on America's home turf. By weaving together these two narratives for the first time ever, the author hopes to paint a more accurate picture of the cataclysmic events that occurred in July 1944-the month that won the war and changed America.
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"Excellent battle narrative and black history rolled into one."-Gilbert Taylor for "Booklist" "A fine account of a little-known milestone in the battle for civil rights."-"Kirkus" In "The Color of War," James Campbell masterfully juxtaposes two searing WWII experiences one white, one black, one justly praised, one unjustly ignored--in a riveting story that makes your emotions, your indignation, and your adrenaline flow. To know what these soldiers who are so thoughtfully rendered here have done and suffered and sacrificed for you and me is to be inspired to prove worthy and do better. This will be a classic war book. Dean King, author of "Skeletons On The Zahara" and "Unbound" "The Color of War" is a textured narrative that deftly explores two titanic struggles one for the pacific, the other for African American equality at home. In James Campbell s sure hands, we come to see and more important, to feel how fundamental freedoms are often born in the most explosive of events. Hampton Sides, author of "Ghost Soldiers" and "Hellhound On His Trail" James Campbell s powerful account of what happened instead is a[n] important chapter of American history, too little known until now. Harry Belafonte The author writes with feeling and authority about an often neglected chapter of World War II history. Charles D. Melson, Chief Historian, U.S. Marine Corps"

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James Campbell is the author of The Final Frontiersman and The Ghost Mountain Boys. He has written for Outside magazine and many other publications.

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