Description from celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army during World War II, and how love and the pursuit of art sustained him.
He endured the terrible lies white officers told about the blac.
For the next three years, he would face the horrors of war as a Black soldier in a segregated army.
In May of 1942, at the age of eighteen, Ashley Bryan was drafted to fight in World War II.
Description from celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army during World War II, and how love and the pursuit of art sustained him