first edition Hardcover
(c.1968) · Garden City NY
by Clarke, John
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1968). First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial boards, with dust jacket) [very light wear to book extremities; jacket has a bit of edgewear and light surface wear, small piece torn away at top of rear flap-fold, tiny closed tear and associated horizontal crease at bottom of rear panel]. (Doubleday Signal Books) Series (pen and ink drawings) Memoir, for juvenile readers, of an African-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and "found out that the color of his skin made a difference to the army -- more difference than anything else." "This is the exciting story of the Negro soldiers of World War II -- how they lived, how they were treated, how they fought for their country. It is a story both of shame and of glory." . (Inventory #: 25594)