Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War Children's Books During the bloodiest days of

During the bloodiest days of World War I

Treacherous Passage is the first complete account of the daring German attempts to raid Allied shipping from Mexico in 1918

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

Capturing the sheer drama and bravery of the ferocious fighting

remorseless and gruesome

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War Children's Books During the bloodiest days ofDescription 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