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residentrunner1_'s review
4.0
"I was patriotic to the core. I knew the hymn of every armed service and had my victory garden."
While the story of blacks in the Army is a fascinating one, we cannot forget about the fact that the last integrated US Army BEFORE Korea was the American Revolution. It was that bad. But Gail Buckley did a great job exposing that and giving a brief rundown of blacks in the military from the Revolution up to Desert Storm.
While it was a good book, the Rough-Riders segment (and the Spanish Civil War) was a bit boring for me. World War II and World War I, along with Vietnam, made up for it. (Remember Dorie Miller!)
4.5***out of 5
While the story of blacks in the Army is a fascinating one, we cannot forget about the fact that the last integrated US Army BEFORE Korea was the American Revolution. It was that bad. But Gail Buckley did a great job exposing that and giving a brief rundown of blacks in the military from the Revolution up to Desert Storm.
While it was a good book, the Rough-Riders segment (and the Spanish Civil War) was a bit boring for me. World War II and World War I, along with Vietnam, made up for it. (Remember Dorie Miller!)
4.5***out of 5
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