Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War Children's Books by Ford Madox Ford

by Ford Madox Ford

this handsome commemorative volume gives a unique perspective on one of the most pivotal and volatile events of modern history

and reports by the men themselves

remorseless and gruesome

scandal and controversy—and because they are the war stories of nurses

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War Children's Books by Ford Madox FordDescription by Jeffrey T. Simmons & John H. Jr. Marrow Paperback When on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an American, and I never retreat." The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the Harlem Rattlers, the African American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard, who were said to have never lost a