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Afro-American Soldiers
Personal Accounts, Biographies, Oral Histories--A Selected Bibliography

Buckley, Gail. American Patriots: the Story of Blacks in the Military, from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York, Random House, 2001.

Daly, James A., and Lee Bergman. A Hero's Welcome: The Conscience of Sergeant James Daly Versus the United States Army. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. Rissued as Black Prisoner of War: A Conscientious Objector's Vietnam Memoir. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

French, Albert. Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption. New York: Anchor Books, 1997.

Goff, Stanley, and Robert Sanders, with Clark Smith. Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1982.

McGovern, James R. Black Eagle: General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Parks, David. G.I. Diary. New York.: Harper & Row, 1968.

Phelps, J. Alfred. Chappie: America's First Black Four-Star General: The Life and Times of Daniel James, Jr. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1991.

Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. New York: Random House, 1984.

Vance, Samuel. The Courageous and the Proud. New York: Norton, 1970.

Whitmore, Terry and Richard Weber. Memphis, Nam, Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.

For additional information, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.

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