This book examines the particular experience of ethnic, religious and national minorities who participated in the First World War as members of the main bellige

For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial Afric

Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.

When on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an Am

"Well after slavery was abolished, its legacy of violence left deep wounds on African Americans' bodies, minds, and lives. For many victims and witnesses of the