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Love, War and the 96th Engineers Colored: The World War II New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson - Softcover
An intimate view of a segregated African-American batallion of the United States Army Corp of Engineers stationed in New Guinea during World War II, edited from the diaries and letters of their Southern Jewish captain. The book shows how he lost his stereotypes about them as he came to know and love them.
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"A superb collection of diaries and letters... Although the war provides the essential background for the script, this is much more than letters and diaries from the front. It is a love story--with Dora, with the Army, with the troops, with New Guinea, with America... The book is a literary achievement." -- Stephen Ambrose, author of D-day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II "[Samuelson] provides insight into race relations within the military as well as documenting the psychological, emotional, and physical demands of long-term service in the Pacific theater... This is an illuminating account of the underside of the 'good' war." -- Library Journal "Hall has fashioned a discerning portrait of the World War II experience, as well as the culture of the American soldier. [This is] a welcome addition to the literature on the African American experience in World War II... [A] compelling, and personal, look at an important aspect of American history." -- Paul D. Gelpi Jr., Southern Historian
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- PublisherCreatespace Independent Pub
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1439204292
- ISBN 13 9781439204290
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages342
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