The Employment of Negro Troops is a book by Ulysses Lee about the service of African Americans in World War II. Lee wrote his 1953 dissertation at the University of Chicago on the subject. [1] His book on the subject by the same title was published in 1966 by the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington D.C. in 1966. [2] [3] Lee served in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Major and served as a military historian. [2]
The War Department delayed publication of the book. [4] The Employment of Negro Troops was largely written between 1947 and 1951 but not published (in somewhat altered/edited form) until a decade later. [5] Robert R. Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book editor, called it "incisive and penetrating...takes up the hard questions and does not compromise on the answers." [6]
The University Press of the Pacific republished the book in 2004 calling it a landmark study. [7]
The Employment of Negro Troops is a book by Ulysses Lee about the service of African Americans in World War II. Lee wrote his 1953 dissertation at the University of Chicago on the subject. [1] His book on the subject by the same title was published in 1966 by the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington D.C. in 1966. [2] [3] Lee served in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Major and served as a military historian. [2]
The War Department delayed publication of the book. [4] The Employment of Negro Troops was largely written between 1947 and 1951 but not published (in somewhat altered/edited form) until a decade later. [5] Robert R. Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book editor, called it "incisive and penetrating...takes up the hard questions and does not compromise on the answers." [6]
The University Press of the Pacific republished the book in 2004 calling it a landmark study. [7]