An intimate view of a segregated African-American battallion 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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Stephen Ambrose, author of Band of Brothers
“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. There is a tragic ending that would make a stone cry. The book is a literary achievement.”
“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. There is a tragic ending that would make a stone cry. The book is a literary achievement.”
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One of the most personal, poignant views of Army life of a young Officer in the Pacific Region of WWII. CPT Samuelson was ahead of his times in terms of race relations in the military. A must read for separated military family members - maintaining a diary will now become the adult thing to do.
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