Lasting Valor - Greenlight

Contributor(s): Baker, Vernon (Author), Olson, Ken (Author), Olsen, Ken (Author)

ISBN: 0553580620 EAN: 9780553580624

Publisher: Bantam (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 7.99 US

Binding: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats

Pub Date: February 02, 1999

Annotation: Purple Heart and Medal of Honor winner Vernon J. Baker eloquently portrays the hell of war in "Lasting Valor", from serving in a segregated Army to watching his men being killed by enemy fire. This bittersweet chronicle tells how Baker was orphaned at age four, and raised by his grandparents in the nearly all-white town of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Filled with unexpected humor and moving insights, this book is a story about love, heartbreak, racism and rediscovery, and most of all, honor and dignity.