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The Unknown Soldiers : Black American Troops in World War One

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By Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri (1974) Philadelphia Temple University Press  ISBN 0-877722-063-8 ‘The Unknown Soldiers’ is essential reading if you are interested in understanding how African-American soldiers served and were treated during the First World War as part of the American Army. The foreword is blunt about the authors reveali…


Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War by Richard Smith

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Subtitle: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness Publisher: Manchester University Press (2004)  ISBN: 9780719069857 Richard Smith Like African-Americans from the US, Jamaicans had a fight on their hands when they returned to Jamaica after the Great War of 1914-1918. Their political and economic struggles, already appar…