About the Author

W. Douglas Fisher served for ten years as an Army and Foreign Service officer after Princeton University, and then worked in computers and banking. His grandfather’s letters and diaries of his experiences as an officer in World War I with the 92nd Division triggered Fisher’s research and writing. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The late Joann H. Buckley taught history and English after Longwood University and then worked in Washington, D.C., nonprofits for more than 20 years. Her grandfather was with New York’s 77th Division and her grandmother, a nurse in New York, treated the wounded returning from Europe. She lived in Florida.

Reviews

“This prodigious work promises to captivate interested general readers and invite scholars to expand the seldom seen swaths of African American life at war and at home that open with the vistas of the 104 physicians”—Library Journal; “Excellent work”—The NYMAS Review; “well-researched”—Watermark; “The authors have performed a valuable bit of thoughtful, detailed research. The result is an evenhanded review of the lives of these remarkable men during a critical period of American history.”— William Hanigan, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery.