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Amazon Exclusive: Essay by Max Brooks (adapted from the author’s note within The Harlem Hellfighters) I first learned of the Harlem Hellfighters from an Anglo-Rhodesian named Michael Furmanovsky when I was 11. Michael was working for my parents while getting his MFA in history from UCLA. He taught me about the British Empire, the Falklands War, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and a host of other topics not covered in my fifth-grade western civilization class. Of all his after-school lessons, the one that left the deepest impression was the story of a unit of American soldiers who weren’t allowed to fight for their country because of the color of their skin. To a white, privileged kid growing up on the west side of L.A. in the 1980s, that kind of prejudice was just inconceivable. When I confessed that I didn’t know about them, he assured me that I wasn’t alone. Ten years later I was an exchange student at the University of the Virgin Islands. The experience brought me back into the orbit of the Hellfighters when, while walking through an old cemetery, I noticed some graves from 1918. I wondered if they might be casualties of the Great War, maybe even members of the 369th. I decided to ask my professor of Virgin Islands history. He was an African-American from the mainland, and to call him passionate would be a laughable understatement. With his beard and spectacles and flaring dashiki, he would rail against the historical crimes committed by white men of Europe and North America. Most heinous was the erasure of black accomplishments by white historians. Colonization, he would tell us, begins with the mind, and the best (or worst) way to colonize a people is to bury their past. “There were no black soldiers in World War I.†That was his dismissive answer to my question about the graves from 1918. When I started to argue, even bringing up the name “Harlem Hellfighters,†he assured me that I must have been confused with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. I was shocked. Here was a scholar, a crusader, a thoughtful, driven man who’d made it his life’s mission to trumpet the glory of Africa and her diaspora, and HE didn’t know about the Harlem Hellfighters. I wish I could say that I decided then and there to write their story, but that would have to wait for nearly another decade. In the late 1990s, I was living back in L.A., just out of graduate school and trying to make a living as a writer. My decision to tackle the story of the Hellfighters came after watching two TNT made-for-TV movies about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Buffalo soldiers. I thought TNT might be interested in a story about World War I’s black heroes, especially after A&E’s successful Lost Battalion movie. I started collecting books about the subject (the most influential was and still is From Harlem to the Rhine by Arthur Little), and a year and several dozen drafts later, I pitched my screenplay to the TNT Network. They passed. So did everyone else. Things changed when I sent my script to actor/director LeVar Burton. “There are actually more than a couple Harlem Hellfighters scripts floating around Hollywood,†he told me during our meeting, “but yours comes closest to the truth.†He agreed that the subject matter would be difficult to sell to studios, but that by no means should that deter me. “I don’t have the power right now to make this movie,†he said, “but I’m not going to give up, and you shouldn’t either.†Thank you, Mr. Burton. Five years and what seemed like a lifetime later, an unexpected opportunity opened up in the world of comic books. In 2006, I began collaborating with Avatar Press on a graphic companion to my first book, The Zombie Survival Guide. I learned very quickly how different comic book writing was from prose, but how similar it could be to movie scripts. I also realized that comics presented a forum for telling very visual stories without the cumbersome budget of movies or television. It seemed the ideal medium for telling the story of the Harlem Hellfighters. It’s now been close to six years since I began working with William Christensen of Avatar Press and the amazingly talented artist Caanan White. And now it’s time to share this heroic regiment’s story of courage, honor, and heart with you. I hope that you are as captivated by it as I have been.
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Brooks (World War Z, 2006) makes a U-turn from zombies with this fictionalized account of the famous all-black 369th Infantry. The opening scene of a trench bomb sets the stage for the whole book: endless, grimacing faces and buckets of gore, mostly in the form of exploded bodies splattering across the page. This intro also betrays the book’s chief concern: simply telling the story of WWI combat, albeit from an unusual point of view. As a result, the plot is fuzzy and the characters suitably enjoyable placeholders. We follow our diverse bunch from enlistment to training to the hell of France, where they fight through inhumane conditions with the utmost valor, and for what? Prejudice and humiliation at every turn. “They would rather see white Germans,†says one soldier, “instead of black Americans march in triumph up Fifth Avenue.†White’s appropriately cluttered art has the horrific shock value of EC Comics classics like Frontline Combat and Two-Fisted Tales, and the whole thing comes off as resolutely Tarantinoesque. The movie version should be along any second now. --Daniel Kraus
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Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books; 1st Edition edition (April 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307464970
ISBN-13: 978-0307464972
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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(Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review through Blogging for Books.)In 1917 we left our home to make the world “safe for democracy.†Even though democracy wasn’t exactly “safe†back home.We went by many names. The 15th. The 369th. And before going “over there,†we called ourselves “The Black Rattlers.†Our French allies called us “The Men of Bronze.â€And our enemies called us “The Harlem Hellfighters.â€###Recruited in Harlem, trained in Camp Whitman, New York (and, disastrously, Spartanburg, South Carolina), and eventually deployed to the Western Front in France, the 369th Infantry Regiment – otherwise known as The Harlem Hellfighters – changed the course of history, even as its own government engineered its failure.The 369th spent 191 days in combat – more than any other American unit, black or white. None of their men were captured by the enemy, nor did they lose any ground; in fact, they were the first men to reach the Rhine River. The 369th volunteered to stay behind in the front trenches for an expected German bombing the day after Bastille Day, 1918, even though it meant almost certain death. One of their soldiers single-handedly fended off German raiders with only a rifle and a bolo knife; for this, Henry Lincoln Johnson earned the nickname “Black Death†– and was the first American to receive the French Croix de Guerre (the Cross of War). In 2003, the US awarded Johnson the Distinguished Service Cross; his supporters are still lobbying for the Medal of Honor.Despite the urgency of the situation – and the depth of their sacrifice – the men of the 369th (as well as other “colored†units) were consistently undermined by their own government. In training, they practiced with broomsticks, while private gun clubs received free rifles from Uncle Sam (“just in caseâ€). Against their leader’s stringent objections, the 369th was sent to Dixie to complete its training – even though, just weeks beforehand, thirteen men from the 24th Regiment were lynched in the wake of racial conflicts in Houston, Texas. And when they finally reached France, the 369th initially performed manual labor alongside black civilian workers.African-American soldiers also faced racism abroad: both imported, at the behest of U.S. brass, as well as from ordinary French citizens (though some of this seems tempered by their gratitude for the soldiers’ help: “While our own country didn’t want us, another country needed us.â€). American policy vis-à -vis “colored†units was as much about fear as it was hatred: “They know what will happen if we return to our people as heroes!†As it turned out, the returning survivors of the 369th got the parade they were denied at the time of deployment – but they also came home in the Red Summer of 1919, only to find a country torn apart by racial violence.The text by author Max Brooks (yes, of WORLD WAR Z fame) is wonderful – both informative and engaging – and the illustrations by Caanan White are vivid and richly detailed. Sadly, the entirety of the book is in black and white; some color, even on strategically placed pages or panels, really would have made the artwork pop. Nonetheless, White’s illustrations manage to convey the horror and desperation of war.While writing about the origins of this graphic novel, Brooks quotes one of his college professors: “Colonization…begins with the mind, and the best (or worst) way to colonize a people is to bury their past.†With THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS, Brooks shines a light on a mostly-unknown aspect of American history.While his decision to tell the story in graphic novel format was mostly one born of necessity (for years Brooks struggled to bring The Harlem Hellfighters to the big or small screen, to no avail), THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS introduces this chapter of history to whole new audience: comic book readers, not all of whom would read this if written as a biography or history book. (Though hopefully it will also inspire readers to do further research on their own. To that end, Brooks provides a lengthy bibliography.)In this vein, THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS is a potentially excellent resource for high school history classes; I know that, if my teachers had given us comic books instead of chapter after chapter of dry textbook reading assignments, I would have found the materials much more engaging.I loved the graphic novel, but am holding out hope that THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS will become a movie or miniseries yet. Get on it, TNT. After FALLING SKIES there’s nowhere to go but up.
This is an absolutely wonderful book. I feel like I owe the author and the artist a debt for making this book. It really moved me. As I am typing this review I can feel the emotion, energy and the weight of the story of The Harlem Hellfighters churning inside of me.These were men that were tougher than the tough times that they lived in. Their story is one of incredible courage. They lived in a world that gave them nothing but subhuman treatment and were then placed in grave danger in defense of that world. Despite being stuck between a rock and a hard place they enthusiastically jumped at the chance to fight for their country. This story may be a fictional account but I have learned enough of the real story to know that much of the book is, in fact, factual.I first learned of The Harlem Hellfighters by watching a World War I documentary. Admittedly, I never heard of them until very recently. I was astounded that I had never encountered a single story about them in my entire life. I purchased this book - as well as other literature - in order to learn as much as I possibly could about the 369th in the War to End All Wars.I love that the story is told in the Graphic Novel medium. The illustrator is quite brilliant in his ability to visually enhance the author's writing and convey the grit and raw emotion behind the words. A picture really is worth a thousand words. Some of the panels depicted scenes that would have taken many pages to describe in words.The real life picture at the end was a fantastic touch. I looked into their eyes and I could see the fire and passion that drove them.I would like to thank the author and the illustrator. This is already one of my favorite books. Thanks to your choice to use your powers and skills to educate and entertain an audience with your take on the story of The Harlem Hellfighters their victories will continue to awe and inspire This was a moving tribute to them.
I admire Max Brooks for his perseverance in telling this story. Too often stories are left untold because Hollywood says they won't sell. This is true for the Harlem Hellfighters.Of all the times in history, I find WWI to be the most fascinating. I remember learning in my IB world history class that something as simple as an assassination could start this huge war and involve nations across the world. I remember thinking how insane that seemed, as a naive 10th grader. What I don't remember is learning anything about these decorated soldiers who came home to the same racism and hatred they faced before and during the war.Elements of the story are fictionalized but the sentiment is there. Even though the art isn't my style, it does the job of adding to the story. It's a quick little history lesson that will get you thinking.I hope you get you Medal of Honor, Henry Johnson.
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