Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era 0807833940, 9780807833940

Shades of Green: Irish Regiments, American Soldiers, and Local Communities in the Civil War Era 9780823276622

Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from

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The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era 0807868213, 9780807868218

Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World

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The GI's War: American Soldiers in Europe During World War II 9781461702498

The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thru

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Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War 1847010156, 9781847010155

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The African American Experience during World War II 1442200162, 9781442200166

Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources

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Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War during the Second World War 0198892780, 9780198892786

This book explores the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinar

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Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War during the Second World War 0198892780, 9780198892786

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Suddenly Soldiers: The 166th Infantry Regiment in World War I 1594163502, 9781594163500

When America entered World War I in April 1917, state National Guard units had never planned to mobilize for this kind o

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God on the Western Front: Soldiers and Religion in World War I 9780271095981

From 1914 to 1918, religious believers and hopeful skeptics tried to find meaning and purpose behind divinely willed des

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Black Tommies : British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War [1 ed.] 9781781384275, 9781781380185

Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regu

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