From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   Hi readers and writers,   
      
   	I look at US graphic works as well as Japanese manga.  Well I   
   do if I can borrow it from the SFPL.  ;^)  I am posting about it here   
   because it is a great historical work and because I can find no   
   other place on Usenet to post about Graphic Novels.   
      
   	The art is very good and highly appropriate to the subject.   
      
   	The Harlem Hellfighters deals with the African-American heroes   
   who fought in WW I.  The soldiers in a couple of segregated units raised   
   in various more tolerant areas of the nation have to deal with racism   
   on the part of the US Army and racism in France imported from/by the US   
   Army.  Oh and the US Army moves them to one of the most intolerant   
   Southern states for training.   
   	The name is given the Hellfighters was from the Germans whom   
   they engaged in battle in trench warfare which is one of the nastiest   
   ways to fight.   
      
   	When they came back to the USA after the War they were briefly   
   hailed as heroes then had to encounter the racism that had gotten very   
   bad at home as they fought in the "War to End All Wars".  It took years   
   for the families to get the medals that they earned from of the US   
   Goverment.  Then racist historians did their best to erase their   
   contribution from history.   
      
   	Now this graphic novel is accurate in general but several   
   characters are invented because the author of course was not there.   
   This story was written by Max Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White.   
   Published as far as I can figure out by Broadway Books in NYC or   
   at    
      
   	bliss   
      
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