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marypmcg's review against another edition
3.0
Seriously, they use the word bivouac a lot, but hey, I learned something. This is a fairly interesting account of a fairly unknown unit of fighters in WWII.
msmandrake's review against another edition
3.0
I heard Kareem speak last week in Beverly Hills and he talked about this , saying that most white people had never heard of the 761st. Well I had to admit to being a white person who had not, so I read his book. The thing of course, that sets the 761st apart from other brave troops who saw vicious combat and were killed and maimed is the despicable and unfathomable way they were treated by both civilians and white fellow troops at all points at all times. It's so frustrating and sad and I got teary on several occasions. So anything to do with that subject was very effective. What keeps me from giving it a higher rating is sentences like these:
"All ten divisions of Patton's XX and XII Corps were arranged along a front, in this case a vertical north-south line, measuring approximately sixty miles. The five divisions of XX Corps were spread out along the northern portion of the front, running south from the vicinity of the city of Thionville to Pont A Mousson: These divisions were the 90th, 9th, 95th and 5th Infantry Divisions and the 10th Armored Division. The five divisions of XII Corps held the southern portion of the front extending from Pont A Mousson to Moncourt Woods: These divisions numbered from north to south were the 80th, 35th, and 26th Infantry Divisions....still with me? How about "They were far outgunned by the Panzers...the original 75mm of the M-4s had a muzzle velocity of 2,050 feet per second; the longer barreled 76mm of the M4A3E8 had a muzzle velocity of 2,900 fps, a 50% improvement..." See? Blah blah! Maybe if I was a boy I could read that sort of thing with more gusto and less zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
"All ten divisions of Patton's XX and XII Corps were arranged along a front, in this case a vertical north-south line, measuring approximately sixty miles. The five divisions of XX Corps were spread out along the northern portion of the front, running south from the vicinity of the city of Thionville to Pont A Mousson: These divisions were the 90th, 9th, 95th and 5th Infantry Divisions and the 10th Armored Division. The five divisions of XII Corps held the southern portion of the front extending from Pont A Mousson to Moncourt Woods: These divisions numbered from north to south were the 80th, 35th, and 26th Infantry Divisions....still with me? How about "They were far outgunned by the Panzers...the original 75mm of the M-4s had a muzzle velocity of 2,050 feet per second; the longer barreled 76mm of the M4A3E8 had a muzzle velocity of 2,900 fps, a 50% improvement..." See? Blah blah! Maybe if I was a boy I could read that sort of thing with more gusto and less zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
akirsch2404's review
5.0
Surprisingly Emotional
Although 75 years later and having heard part of the history previously, this book brought it to a very personal level. To see both segregation and WWII combat from the eyes of the people going through it made it emotional for me.
Although 75 years later and having heard part of the history previously, this book brought it to a very personal level. To see both segregation and WWII combat from the eyes of the people going through it made it emotional for me.
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