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“A work of stunning density and penetrating analysis . . . Lost Battalions deploys a narrative symmetry of gratifying complexity.”—David Levering Lewis (1) 2006-release (1) 20th century (2) 77th Division (1) African American (2) African American History (3) African American soldiers (2) American (2) American history (4) american-history-early-20th-c (1) Harlem Hellfighters (1) history (8) immigrants (2) juxtaposing social commentary with battle scenes that display the bravery and solidarity of these men. Enduring grueling maneuvers (1) military (2) military history (2) minorities (2) no soldiers served more valiantly than the African American troops of the 369th Infantry—the fabled Harlem Hellfighters—and the legendary 77th “lost battalion” composed of New York City immigrants. Though these men had lived up to (1) non-fiction (3) race (2) the country to which they returned solidified laws and patterns of social behavior that had stigmatized them as second-class citizens.Richard Slotkin takes the pulse of a nation struggling with social inequality during a decisive historical moment (1) The Nation During the bloodiest days of World War I (1) to-read (4) US history (4) USA (3) war (4) war-what-is-it-good-for (1) world-war-1914-1945 (1) WW1 History (2) WWI (21)