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Foxholes and Color Lines challenges this view, revealing both the intense political conflict at the time and the strenuous opposition to racial integration within all branches of the armed forces.

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A first-rate account of how, over a relatively brief period, America's military establishment transformed itself. Times Literary Supplement Wonderful... This book is invaluable as armed-forces history. -- Harold Jackson Baltimore Sun Well-written, thoughtful, and incisive... A fresh look at why the armed services took so long to implement a policy imposed upon them by their civilian leaders. -- Dale E. Wilson Journal of Military History Mershon and Schlossman... provide the most penetrating and thorough account to date of the policies and tensions associated with this metamorphosis. Publishers Weekly

Foxholes and Color Lines

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    A Paperback / softback by Sherie Mershon, Steven Schlossman

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 April 2003
      ISBN-13 9780801872419
      978-0801872419
      ISBN-10 0801872413
      Also in:
      Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Military and defence strategy Warfare and defence

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Foxholes and Color Lines challenges this view, revealing both the intense political conflict at the time and the strenuous opposition to racial integration within all branches of the armed forces.

      Trade Review
      A first-rate account of how, over a relatively brief period, America's military establishment transformed itself. Times Literary Supplement Wonderful... This book is invaluable as armed-forces history. -- Harold Jackson Baltimore Sun Well-written, thoughtful, and incisive... A fresh look at why the armed services took so long to implement a policy imposed upon them by their civilian leaders. -- Dale E. Wilson Journal of Military History Mershon and Schlossman... provide the most penetrating and thorough account to date of the policies and tensions associated with this metamorphosis. Publishers Weekly

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