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    The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America
    The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America
    The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America
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    The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America

    Written by James Campbell

    Narrated by Stephen Hoye

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    In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it "as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." For the Americans, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of a Time magazine correspondent, Saipan was "war at its grimmest."On the night of July 17, 1944, as Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz were celebrating the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just thirty-five miles northeast of San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors. They toiled in obscurity loading munitions ships with ordnance essential to the U.S. victory in Saipan. Yet instead of honoring the sacrifice these men made for their country, the Navy blamed them for the accident, and when they refused to handle ammunition again, launched the largest mutiny trial in U.S. naval history.The Color of War, then, is the story of two battles, the one overseas and the other on America's home turf. By weaving together these two narratives for the first time ever, the author hopes to paint a more accurate picture of the cataclysmic events that occurred in July 1944-the month that won the war and changed America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 15, 2012
    ISBN9781452677378
    The Color of War: How One Battle Broke Japan and Another Changed America
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    James Campbell

    James Campbell decided to be a writer when he was seven, once he had decided that he could not be a duck. James travels around primary schools telling stories and encouraging children to write their own stuff. He lives in an off-grid farm in a field between Colchester and Ipswich and is passionate about demystifying the importance of saving the planet for children - while making them laugh too!

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    • 4/5
      This is really two independent books that come together only on July 17, 1944. On that date, Port Chicago Naval magazine exploded and the Japanese surrendered on Saipan while its leadership faced up to the idea that the war was lost. I pretty much ignored the Saipan story as it discussed the tactics of capturing the island, palm tree by palm tree--not my kind of story. Port Chicago's story is a step on the US' road to racial equality. It was an excellent telling of that story. That story is the US Navy's institutional prejudice. I would have liked to see a better nexus between the stories, as I skipped whole [Saipan] chapters to digest the Port Chicago story. Further, it would be interesting to see the impact of the Port Chicago loss on the war effort. Half of this book was excellent, the other half is throw away.
    • 5/5
      The kangaroo court martial is qualified to be made into a feature film- what a travesty of military injustice. I’ll write the script because it’s that inspiring to expose the truth and Jim Crow racist disparity of our Negro enlisted troops. They were fighting a war on two fronts- thus the Double V Campaign.