Title: Sword of valor
First published: 2003
Description: The Black Sabre series, detailing the huge contributions that African Americans have made to the military throughout American history, concludes with Sword of Valor. Five generations of the Sharps family have fought on America's front lines. The first woman to join their ranks is West Point graduate Lieutenant Argonne Sharps, a helicopter pilot with the famous 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles." From the invasion of Kuwait by the Iraqi Republican Guard, to the victorious culmination on "The Highway of Death" in the ground campaign, the meticulous preparation for war is seen from the 1st Brigade's deployment to the last shot fired.
Subjects: United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st, Persian Gulf War, 1991, African American families, Women helicopter pilots, Fiction, United States, African American soldiers, African americans, fiction, Persian gulf war, 1991, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military
LC classification: PS3573.I4445 S95 2003