Love, War and the 96th Engineers (Colored).


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Add a tag Cancel Be the first to add a tag for this edition. Lists What are lists? Login to add to list. Be the first to add this to a list. Comments and reviews What are comments? The University of Melbourne. The University of Queensland. War throws people together and tears people apart, and that is the stuff of stories. Hyman Samuelson's diaries and letters give us unprecedented insights into race relations during the war in a segregated labor battalion an War throws people together and tears people apart, and that is the stuff of stories.

Hyman Samuelson's diaries and letters give us unprecedented insights into race relations during the war in a segregated labor battalion and into the important but unsung role of the noncombatant engineers. In addition to this unique perspective on military history, Love, War, and the 96th Engineers Colored is a moving tale of personal sacrifice during difficult times. Although military personnel were not allowed to keep diaries during the war, and correspondence was censored, Samuelson - an excellent writer and keen observer - kept his diary regularly.

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In addition to revelations about military bureaucracy, the morale of enlisted men and officers, attitudes toward the Japanese, and all-too-human accounts of tropical diseases, relations between officers and nurses, and drinking and sexual deprivation, a poignant - and ultimately tragic - love story between the young officer and his stateside wife shines from these pages.

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His detailed, on-site account of issues rarely touched on in wartime literature - especially the dynamics between black troops and white officers and the unsung work of military engineers - unfolds side by side with the poignant, ultimately tragic, love story of Samuelson's wartime marriage and his wife Dora's fight against cancer. Expertly edited by Samuelson's niece, the award-winning historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, these diaries tell a moving story of personal sacrifice under difficult circumstances that included not only enemy attack, but also a segregated and unequal military structure.

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Felt like I was right there with him! Thank you and all the others like you who sacrificed so much for our country!!! CPT Samuelson was ahead of his times in terms of race relations in the military. A must read for separated military family members - maintaining a diary will now become the adult thing to do. One person found this helpful. I very much enjoyed reading the diary and letters of Captain Samuelson and his wife Dora but the compiling editor provides no context for entries other than in brief endnotes and there are no third party observations.

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In the end she just lets the story of the 96th Battalion fade into oblivion. The title is a definite misnomer. In addition there are inexcusable errors in the introduction which lead me to believe that Stephen Ambrose quoted in a blurb may have seen the archive material but never read the actual manuscript. The editor confuses General Benjamin O.