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sweet story
I liked this historical fiction set in England during WWII. Gloria and her mother Rose live in a large house that has been allocated to house American officers. She meet several of the GIs stationed in the area. The focus of the book is on the unfair way that Black GIs were treated by their white counterparts. Apparently The British were more open minded about race and allowed blacks and whites to intermingle and go to pubs. After reading this book I went online and found a website that discusses how blacks were treated by the British during the war and apparently it was much like it was depicted in this novel.
https://iwm.org.uk/history/they-treated-us-royally-the-experiences-of-black-americans-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war
I liked this historical fiction set in England during WWII. Gloria and her mother Rose live in a large house that has been allocated to house American officers. She meet several of the GIs stationed in the area. The focus of the book is on the unfair way that Black GIs were treated by their white counterparts. Apparently The British were more open minded about race and allowed blacks and whites to intermingle and go to pubs. After reading this book I went online and found a website that discusses how blacks were treated by the British during the war and apparently it was much like it was depicted in this novel.
https://iwm.org.uk/history/they-treated-us-royally-the-experiences-of-black-americans-in-britain-during-the-second-world-war
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