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We Fought the Road

We Fought the Road

McClure, Christine
McClure, Dennis

Paperback

Canadian History20th Century United States HistoryWorld War II

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1935347772
ISBN13: 9781935347774
Publisher: Epicenter Pr Inc
Published: Oct 17 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the Three Cent Romance, the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers.

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