An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

by Beth Bailey

By the late 1960s, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August 1968, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of "same mud, same blood" were over, and a new generation of Black GIs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469673266
• ISBN13: 9781469673264
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"