With a Black Platoon in Combat: A Year in Korea
Language: English
Published by College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, [1993], 1993
Series: Book 106 of 160 - Williams-Ford Texas A&M Uni6versity Military History
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: T. Brennan, Bookseller (ABAA / ILAB), Ellsworth, ME, U.S.A.T. Brennan, Bookseller (ABAA / ILAB)
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First edition, so stated, in the publisher's brown leatherette with spine lettering gilt, octavo, pp. xvi, 176. Black and white illustrations; Korean War Chronology.
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- Title
- With a Black Platoon in Combat: A Year in Korea
- Author
- RISHELL, Lyle
- Publisher
- College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, [1993]
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0890965269
- ISBN 13
- 9780890965269
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 454 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.54 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 106 of 160: Williams-Ford Texas A&M Uni6versity Military History
- Seller catalogs
- African American
From detailed notes he made at the time, and from his memories of those days, Rishell reconstructs the deployment and tactics of his unit, its day-to-day actions and survival. The story that unfolds is one of honor, fear, fighting spirit, fierce combat, and the cries of wounded men.
The 24th Infantry Regiment has received bad press from many historians of the Korean War, who claim that the black soldiers and noncommissioned officers were undisciplined and even cowardly in battle. Rishell's moving account, based on his own experiences, describes his men as no better or worse than any other infantrymen in the first year in Korea. His troops fought well from July, 1950, to May, 1951, in nearly constant frontline action against the North Koreans and the Chinese Communists, despite a variety of significant fundamental obstacles, including the racial prejudice of much of their own army.
It is a unique and compelling story of the relationship of a white officer and black soldiers before integration of the services and the civil rights legislation of the sixties. It is also an important corrective to a poorly understood aspect of one of America's most dismal conflicts.
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