Black Warriors: the Return of the Buffalo Soldier - Softcover

Houston, Ivan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1663251304 ISBN 13: 9781663251305

Publisher: iUniverse, 2023

Synopsis

The Italians in the towns and villages liberated by the buffalo soldiers during World War II called them Giganti Buoni, the Good Giants. They did not know that these giants would return to a country where they were still second-class citizens. In 2012, Ivan J. Houston, one of those remaining buffalo soldiers, was invited to return to Italy by the owner of a villa his battalion captured. He and his family would be guests at the fifteenth-century Villa Orsini, now a bed and breakfast renamed the Villa La Dogana. His return to Tuscany almost seventy years after the war had ended was filled with emotion. In this book, he describes how he went back to a place where African American buffalo soldiers are considered heroes and liberators. He visits battlefields where more than three thousand African American buffalo soldiers were killed or wounded as they battled Nazi and Fascist soldiers. The author and his family returned to Italy for five consecutive years, visiting the battle sites and celebrating ancient victories that will never be forgotten.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1663251304
• ISBN 13: 9781663251305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178