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Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Set in WWII, a squad of African American soldiers is sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downed fighter pilot.
Set in WWII, a squad of U.S. African American soldiers is sent on a rescue mission behind enemy lines to locate their lost commanding officer and a downed fighter pilot.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed—marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores the crucial role of photography in (re)telling and shaping African American narratives of the Civil...
Publisher
Movie Classics
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Betrayal: A lonely widow hires a young woman to be her companion but unknown to her employer she and her boyfriend are planning a deadly extortion scheme.
Black brigade: All-black troop must deal with a racist officer as they are commanded to take over an important German bridge.
10) Buffalo soldiers
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story about the all-black U.S. Cavalry Troop H, which protected the Western territories in post-Civil War times. The story focuses on the troops' attempts to capture an Apache warrior, Vittorio, who slaughters the settlers in New Mexico. The film examines the racial tensions that existed between the black soldiers and some of the white soldiers, and the truths about the Indian invaders.
12) P.S. be eleven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her Pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
A jihadist leader has seized a supply of sarin gas and is wreaking havoc. Marine gunnery sergeant A. E. Blount, the grandson of one of the first black Marines, sets out with his strike force to kill or capture the terrorist. Several Marines are killed, some are captured, and the jihadist promises that unless forces withdraw, he will execute one prisoner a day. Immediately, Blount's friends and colleagues Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Lieutenant...
15) Ghost legion
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Marty McKidrict and Stuart Brodie are outcasts in the turbulent colonial backcountry of the 1780s. Trying to escape a brutal, sadistic husband, McKidrict disguises herself as a man and reluctantly joins the Patriot cause led by John Sevier and the Overmountain Men. Meanwhile, Brodie, a freedman, joins the Loyalists after Brodie's brother is lynched by a gang of Patriot renegades. In the heat of the American Revolution, fate will bring the two together...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel, a young, black soldier fighting for a country that refuses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war effort. Charity Edna Adams became the first black woman commissioned as an officer. Black members of the WAC had to fight the prejudices not only of males who did not want women in their "man's army,"...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
What did it take to be a paratrooper in World War II? Specialized training, extreme physical fitness, courage, and -- until the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was formed - white skin. In 1943, Americans were fighting World War II to keep the world safe from tyranny, yet at home, white people had rights that black people did not. What is courage? Perhaps it is being ready to fight for your nation even when your nation won't fight for you.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's most significant kills - none of which have been told before. Each mission is an in-depth look at a new element of eliminating the enemy, from intel to luck, recon to weaponry. Told in a thrilling narrative, this is also a heart-pounding true story of some of The Reaper's boldest missions including the longest shot of his military career on a human...
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