Synopses & Reviews
"Whites should read this book to learn of Baker's accomplishments against a background of severe prejudice. Blacks should read it for the heroism it reveals. Everybody should read it for the power of its narrative." --The Washington Post
Synopsis
This is the true story of one of the last of the Buffalo soldiers, who for 52 years waited for the Army to give him his due. It is, at last, a story of the only living black WWII veteran to receive the nation's highest honor for battlefield valor.