Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
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ISBN:0763651176 (reinforced trade hardcover)
ISBN:9780763651176 (reinforced trade hardcover)
Physical Description:147 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 26 cm print
Tanya Lee Stone is a former editor and the Robert F. Sibert Awardâwinning author of Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. This new book was seven years in the making, as she did extensive original research and tracked down archival photos. Tanya Lee Stone lives in Vermont.