Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Women's Friendship Fiction now more than ever

now more than ever

to a prisoner and a factory worker

” -Elizabeth Acevedo

He's especially good at subtly shifting the tone of the narrative so that danger signs build up around Guillermo before either he or the reader realizes

Intimate and deeply moving

Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Women's Friendship Fiction now more than everThe definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, by award winning historian and civil rights expert Winner of the 2023 Anisfield Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 A 2022 Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and more More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated