Blood for Dignity: The Story of the First Integrated Combat Unit in the U.S. Army

by David P. Colley

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Recounts the history of the first black unit integrated with a white infantry company since the Revolutionary War, exploring how the integration came about and its implications on American society during and after World War II.

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David P. Colley analyses critical mistakes made by the Allied supreme commander. General Dwight Eisenhower, in the last nine months of the war and argues that had Eisenhower been more adept at taking advantage of several potential breakthroughs in the Siegfried Line in the fall of 1944, the war in the ETO might have ended sooner.

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World War II (1939 | 1945)

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History, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
940.54History & geographyHistory of EuropeHistory of Europe1918-Military history of World War II
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D769.31History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaHistory (General)World War II (1939-1945)
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