Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist

By: Roi Ottley

When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light.

Already famous as the author of New World A-Coming--in which he decried the hypocrisy of America fighting for freedom in Europe while denying it to blacks at home--Ottley was sent to cover the experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700618910
• ISBN13: 9780700618910
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"