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The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History

Door William E. Griggs e.a.

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#326748-AC22
Titel	The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History
Auteur	Griggs, William E. & Philip J. Merrill (editor) & Douglas Brinley (introduction)
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Jackson, MS : The University Press of Mississippi
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	1578065046
ISBN13	9781578065042
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, oblong, circa 22x24cm.
Samenvatting	The 97th Army Corps Engineers, an African American unit, worked extensively on completing the Alaska/ Canadian Highway, but the corps' substantial role in this project to defend North America from Japanese attack during World War II has received only scant attention. The Discovery Channel's recent television show about the Alcan Highway offered only brief mention of this unit's contribution. With this book William E. Griggs, the official photographer for the battalion, amends the long-neglected history. Documenting the record of its service, he took almost a thousand photographs as the 97th traveled from Fort Elgin, Florida, to Seattle and then to Port Valdez and into the interior of Alaska. Published here for the first time are more than a hundred of Griggs's black-and-white photograph... (Lees verder)ic images, along with captions he has written to explain the official work of the 97th. Showing members in social and camp life and in road construction and arranged in chronological sequence, the photographs are a record of the previously unproclaimed service these African Americans gave to the defense of their country. "This compelling collection of photographs," says historian Douglas Brinkley, whose introductory essay places Griggs and his work in historical context, "provides us the only visual documentation of which I am aware of the 97th's role. . . . Moreover, considering the scant availability of documents--visual or otherwise--pertaining to the 97th's unheralded contribution to the highway's creation, this collection of photographs really is a remarkable find." William E. Griggs (b. 1918) lives in Baltimore. He remains an avid photographer. Philip J. Merrill, a regular on PBS's Antiques Roadshow, is a leading authority on African American memorabilia and cultural artifacts. Douglas Brinkley, director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans, is the author of the American Heritage History of the United States, The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House, and Rosa Parks.
Pagina's	112
Conditie	Goed — Still shrinkwrapped, but with a black permanent marker dot on bottom cut.
Prijs	€ 30,00

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