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Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance
- Title
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance / Alexis Clark.
- Author
- Clark, Alexis
- Publication
- New York, NY : The New Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 251 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This is the nonfiction love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history"--
- Subject
- Albert, Elinor Powell, 1921-2005
- Albert, Frederick
- United States. Army Nurse Corps > Biography
- United States. Army Nurse Corps
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans > Biography
- Prisoners of war > United States > Biography
- Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography
- Interethnic marriage > United States
- World War, 1939-1945 > Medical care
- World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, American
- African Americans
- Interethnic marriage
- Medical care
- Prisoners of war
- Germany
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Elinor -- Frederick -- Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow -- German POWs in the United States -- Prisoners and nurses -- A forbidden romance -- End of war -- An uncertain future -- Searching for acceptance -- Finally home.
- Call Number
- Sc D 19-200
- ISBN
- 9781620971864
- 1620971860
- LCCN
- 2017041548
- OCLC
- 1000049638
- Author
- Clark, Alexis, author.
- Title
- Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance / Alexis Clark.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : The New Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 19-200