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Summary:

"Nearly forgotten by history, this is the story of the Wereth Eleven, African-American soldiers who fought courageously for freedom in WWII--only to be ruthlessly executed by Nazi troops during the Battle of the Bulge"--Amazon.com.

Table of Contents:

• A quiet forest
• The Berlin Olympics
• The banning
• A wall of photographs
• Lebensraum
• The baseball pitcher from Piedmont
• The meeting at Berchtesgaden
• Invasion!
• The Belgian family
• The war begins
• The baker's son and the butcher's apprentice
• The trip to Paris
• The Einsatzgruppen
• The surprise attack
• The news at Wolfschanze
• The date that will live in infamy
• The changing world
• The Christmas Eve message
• The Louisiana riot
• Drafted!

• The risk
• The Army's Jim Crow
• The GI from Pontotoc County
• Christmas of '42
• The 155mm Howitzer
• The early months of '43
• The urgent message
• The training manuals
• The baby
• Training
• The helper
• The visitor
• The new POW compound
• Operation Citadel
• Disillusioned
• The song
• Late-night reflections
• The weakening Reich
• Training in the U.K.
• A stir in Britain
• Planning an assault
• D-Day
• An invasion from the west
• Arriving at Utah Beach
• "Ready! Fire!"
• The Symphony Serenade
• The plot
• The terrifying news
• The push out of Normandy
• Onward into battle
• The surrender
• Brest
• The battle, fierce and deadly
• The capture of Brest
• The liberation of Paris
• The bivouac
• The young, the old, and the wounded
• The reports
• The long march to Belgium
• The City of Light
• The plan
• Bivouacking in Belgium
• Operation Greif
• Life at the west wall
• The rockets
• The secret revealed
• A sleepless night
• "Just a phonograph"
• "Too quiet!"
• Darkness in the Schnee Eifel
• The attack
• "Screaming meemies!"
• The death sentence
• A long and deadly day
• The breakthrough
• Captured!
• The P-47 Thunderbolt
• Massacre at the Baugnez crossroads
• The farmhouse
• Unexpected hospitality
• The arrest
• The long wait
• "Though l walk through the valley"
• The rest of the story
• What happened to the others?

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Author/Creator:

George, Denise , author

Contributors:

Child, Robert, 1963- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The lost eleven: the forgotten story of black American soldiers brutally massacred in World War II [by George, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Lost eleven [by George, D.] (First edition; New York : Caliber, 2017 — ISBN 9781101987407; LCCN 2016056855; OCLC Number 965754249)

Subjects:

United States Army — Field Artillery Battalion, 333rd

World War, 1939-1945 — Participation, African American

Malmedy Massacre, 1944-1945

World War, 1939-1945 — Atrocities — Belgium — Wereth

Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945

Wereth (Belgium) — History, Military — 20th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

D769.34 333rd .G46 2017

ISBNs:

9781101987391 (hardcover)
1101987391 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016041981

OCLC Numbers:

949869388