num_pages: 259
description: Roberts retired from a full career in the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1986 and now writes history when he is not teaching industrial technology. In 1917, the US government decreed that American soldiers would serve only under the Allied Expeditionary Forces, he explains, but General John Pershing, who commanded those forces, used an obscure clause in the policy to hand off four regiments of black enlisted men to the French because he considered them undesirable. This was the first French foreign legion, and he tells the stories of those soldiers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The American Foreign Legion: Black Soldiers of the 93rd in World War I
titlecomplete: The American Foreign Legion: Black Soldiers of the 93rd in World War I
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Naval Inst Pr