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FREEDOM FLYERS ORHIS P
FREEDOM FLYERS ORHIS P
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Excellent history of the first African-American military pilots...Moye's lively prose and the intimate details of the personal narratives yield an accessible scholarly history that also succeeds as vivid social history. --Publishers Weekly
A scholarly but accessible treatment of a significant forerunner of the civil-rights movement. --Kirkus Reviews
In several particularly moving passages, veterans recall the heavy load they carried to attain not only personal success but also achievement for their entire race...The personal nature of the examples Moye cites make it a far deeper and richer narrative than typical WWII fare...As both civil rights and U.S. military history, the Tuskegee Airmen comprise a worthy subject, while the author's friendly style should open the title up to even casual readers. --Booklist
This book is an important contribution that will be enjoyed by general readers and historians. --ForeWord Reviews
Moye, a history professor at the University of North Texas, directed the National Park Service's five-year Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project. He draws on those interviews to inject a first-person, insider feel into his exhaustive study of the Tuskegee program. --The Dallas Morning News
Moye draws on three elements to set his book apart as the best overall account of how blacks aspired to fly for the Army Air Corps were accepted into an experimental program at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama starting in 1941, and then amassed a remarkable wartime record that ultimately led to the integration of the U.S. armed forces. -- Aviation History
[An] enriching, deeply humane, and academically rigorous volume. -- CHOICE
J. Todd Moye's Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II is the best book yet written about the total experience of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American or black pilots in the Army Air Forces, and their support personnel...The book is valuable not only for its wealth of information about the Tuskegee Airmen groups and squadrons, but also for placing them in the broader context of American history, including the sociological and political forces that pressured the War Department and the Army Air Corps, and later the Army Air Forces, to include blacks among its pilots, not only for fighters but also for bombers. --Daniel Haulman, H-Net
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
260
Release Date:
2012-01-01
Publication Date:
2012-02-16
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199896550
ISBN13:
9780199896554
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Weight:
401 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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