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Eventide

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400043018
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eventide written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another. • "Storytelling at its best.” —Entertainment Weekly The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide reveals Kent Haruf as a novelist of masterful authority. “Stunning.... The dry, cold air of Colorado's high plains seems to intensify the light Kent Haruf shines on every character in his masterful novel.... A book of hope, hope as plain and hard-won as Haruf's keenly styled prose.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Patton's Panthers

Author : Charles W. Sasser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439103909
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Patton's Panthers written by Charles W. Sasser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others—proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight as any tank unit in combat. Beginning in November 1944, the 761st Tank Battalion engaged the enemy for 183 straight days, spearheading many of General Patton's offensives at the Battle of the Bulge and in six European countries. No other unit fought for so long and so hard without respite. The 761st defeated more than 6,000 enemy soldiers, captured thirty towns, liberated Jews from concentration camps—and made history as the first African American armored unit to enter the war. This is the true story of the Black Panthers, who proudly lived up to their motto (Come Out Fighting) and paved the way for African Americans in the U.S. military—while battling against the skepticism and racism of the very people they fought for.

The 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion in World War II

Author : Joe Wilson, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786428625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book The 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battalion in World War II written by Joe Wilson, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive record of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African American armored unit to enter combat. Assigned at various times to the Third, Seventh and Ninth armies, the "Black Panthers" fought major engagements in six European countries and participated in four major Allied campaigns, inflicting heavy casualties on the German army and capturing or destroying thousands of weapons, despite severe weather, difficult terrain, heavily fortified enemy positions, extreme shortages of replacement personnel and equipment, and an overall casualty rate approaching 50 percent. Richly illustrated and containing many interviews with surviving members of the 761st, this work gives long overdue recognition to the unit whose motto was "Come Out Fighting." It recounts the events that in 1978--33 years after the end of World War II--led to the 761st Tank Battalion's receiving a Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a unit can receive. Also described are the efforts that resulted, in 1997--53 years after giving his life on the battlefield--in the Medal of Honor being posthumously awarded to Sergeant Ruben Rivers.

The Black Panthers

Author : Gina M. DiNicolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594162817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Black Panthers written by Gina M. DiNicolo and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Panthers: A Story of Race, War, and Courage : the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II, historian Gina M. DiNicolo tells the full and unvarnished history of this important American fighting force.

Brothers in Arms

Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739312063
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Brothers in Arms written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II

Author : Joe Wilson, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629447
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The 758th Tank Battalion in World War II written by Joe Wilson, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941, the U.S. Army activated the 758th Tank Battalion, the first all-black armored unit. By December 1944 they were fighting the Axis in Northern Italy, from the Ligurian Sea through the Po Valley and into the Apennine Mountains, where they helped breach the Gothic Line--the Germans' last major defensive line of the Italian Campaign. After the war the 758th was deactivated but was reformed as the 64th Tank Battalion, keeping their distinguished insignia, a tusked elephant head over the motto "We Pierce." They entered the Korean War still segregated but returned fully integrated (though discrimination continued internally). Through the years, they fought with almost every American tank--the Stuart, the Sherman, the Pershing, the Patton and today's Abrams. Victorious over two fascist (and racist) regimes, many black servicemen returned home to what they hoped would be a more tolerant nation. Most were bitterly disappointed--segregation was still the law of the land. For many, disappointment became a determination to fight discrimination with the same resolve that had defeated the Axis.

The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA

Author : Brenda Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524737119
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA written by Brenda Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and a Black WWII veteran who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South. For Gabriel Haberlin, life seems pretty close to perfect in the small southern town of Birdsong, USA. But on his twelfth birthday, his point of view begins to change. It all starts when he comes face-to-face with one of the worst drivers in town while riding his new bicycle--an accident that would have been tragic if Mr. Meriwether Hunter hadn't been around to push him out of harm's way. After the accident, Gabriel and Meriwether become friends when they both start working at Gabriel's dad's auto shop, and Meriwether lets a secret slip: He served in the army's all-black 761st Tank Battalion in World War II. Soon Gabriel learns why it's so dangerous for Meriwether to talk about his heroism in front of white people, and Gabriel's eyes are finally opened to the hard truth about Birdsong--and his understanding of what it means to be a hero will never be the same.

Blood for Dignity

Author : David P. Colley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312325800
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Blood for Dignity written by David P. Colley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integration of black platoons in 1945 represents the first time since the American Revolution that African American soldiers were integrated into white combat units. The experiences of these soldiers were truly radical and a harbinger of things to come. Clearly, these black infantrymen planted the seeds of integration in the army--and the nation. Blood for Dignity tells the story of these soldiers through the eyes of 5th platoon, K Company, 394th Regiment, 99th Division--the first integrated combat unit since the Revolutionary War. These men were involved in heavy combat at the Remagen Bridgehead and several other critical junctures as they drove back the German army. The performance of these men laid to rest the accepted white attitude of a century and a half that blacks were cowardly and inferior fighters. In fact, they proved to be just the opposite. Author David Colley interviewed many of the members of the 99th. Their accounts along with years of reseach paint a gripping, combat-heavy portrait of young men fighting together for their nation. For as they will tell you, in combat situations, prejudice and the color line disappears.

Fighting for America

Author : Christopher Paul Moore
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0307415228
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for America written by Christopher Paul Moore and published by One World. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African-American contribution to winning World War II has never been celebrated as profoundly as in Fighting for America. In this inspirational and uniquely personal tribute, the essential part played by black servicemen and -women in that cataclysmic conflict is brought home. Here are letters, photographs, oral histories, and rare documents, collected by historian Christopher Moore, the son of two black WWII veterans. Weaving his family history with that of his people and nation, Moore has created an unforgettable tapestry of sacrifice, fortitude, and courage. From the 1,800 black soldiers who landed at Normandy Beach on D-Day, and the legendary Tuskegee Airmen who won ninety-five Distinguished Flying Crosses, to the 761st Tank Battalion who, under General Patton, helped liberate Nazi death camps, the invaluable effort of black Americans to defend democracy is captured in word and image. Readers will be introduced to many unheralded heroes who helped America win the war, including Dorie Miller, the messman who manned a machine gun and downed four Japanese planes; Robert Brooks, the first American to die in armored battle; Lt. Jackie Robinson, the future baseball legend who faced court-martial for refusing to sit in the back of a military bus; an until now forgotten African-American philosopher who helped save many lives at a Japanese POW camp; even the author’s own parents: his mother, Kay, a WAC when she met his father, Bill, who was part of the celebrated Red Ball Express. Yet Fighting for America is more than a testimonial; it is also a troubling story of profound contradictions, of a country still in the throes of segregation, of a domestic battleground where arrests and riots occurred simultaneously with foreign service–and of how the war helped spotlight this disparity and galvanize the need for civil rights. Featuring a unique perspective on black soldiers, Fighting for America will move any reader: all who, like the author, owe their lives to those who served.

The Black Panthers at War: The 761st Tank Battalion and General Patton's Drive on Germany

Author : Gina M. Dinicolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966298673
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book The Black Panthers at War: The 761st Tank Battalion and General Patton's Drive on Germany written by Gina M. Dinicolo and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the 761st Tank Battalion as well as political and social luminaries of the day. Led by a small cadre of white and black officers, the men trained to the pinnacle of their craft and soon earned its coveted assignment to serve under General George S. Patton to fight head-to-head with the best of Hitler's arsenal..

Hit Hard

Author : David J. Williams
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553231267
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Hit Hard written by David J. Williams and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit Hard is the exciting, heroic saga of the 761st Tank Battalion, a U.S. Army unit of black soldiers, clashing and dying in front-line combat. Thirty years after World War II, their glorious exploits and matchless fighting spirit were finally recognized in a unit citation. Here is their story.

By Chance Alone

Author : Max Eisen
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488059748
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book By Chance Alone written by Max Eisen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor “Max” Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard and eventually loaded them onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. At fifteen years of age, Eisen survived the selection process and was inducted into the camp as a slave laborer. More than seventy years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, By Chance Alone details Eisen’s story of survival: the backbreaking slave labor in Auschwitz I, the infamous death march in January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation and Eisen’s journey of physical and psychological healing. Ultimately, the book offers a message of hope as the author finds his way to a new life.

Eleanor Roosevelt's Niggers

Author : David J. Williams
Publisher : Neptune Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eleanor Roosevelt's Niggers written by David J. Williams and published by Neptune Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 761st Tank Battalion

Author : Kathryn Browne Pfeifer
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The 761st Tank Battalion written by Kathryn Browne Pfeifer and published by Twenty-First Century Books (CT). This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the first black armored unit to be committed to combat in World War II.

Soldiers of Freedom

Author : Samuel Marquis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943593279
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Freedom written by Samuel Marquis and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Liberators

Author : Lou Potter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Liberators written by Lou Potter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the African-American soldiers who battled fascism in Europe and racism at home. The first black tankers ever to enter combat, the 761st Battalion bore the brunt of harassment from all sides. This gripping historical narrative, filled with interviews and 150 exceptional photographs, ties in to a PBS documentary special on the 761st airing this fall.

1st Armored Division, WWII & Beyond

Author : Greg S. Wurth
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1596520116
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book 1st Armored Division, WWII & Beyond written by Greg S. Wurth and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st Armored Division history book contains updated division history and stories as told by the members of the 1st Armored Division Association. This book reveals the life of the men and women who served and are currently serving our country. The 1st Armored Division: The History and Legacy also features first hand experiences from WWII to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Don't miss this tribute and historically unique book, order your copy of the 1st Armored Division: The History and Legacy today!