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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
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A New & Noteworthy selection of The New York Times Book ReviewAlexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci[A]n irresistible human story. . . . Clarks voice is engaging, and her tale universal.Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseA true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home frontThis is a love story like no other: Elinor Powell was an African American nurse in the U.S. military during World War II; Frederick Albert was a soldier in Hitlers army, captured by the Allies and shipped to a prisonerofwar camp in the Arizona desert. Like most other black nurses, Elinor pulled a secondclass assignment, in a dusty, sunbakedand segregatedWestern town. The army figured that the risk of fraternization between black nurses and white German POWs was almost nil.Brought together by unlikely circumstances in a racist world, Elinor and Frederick should have been bitter enemies; but instead, at the height of World War II, they fell in love. Their dramatic story was unearthed by journalist Alexis Clark, who through years of interviews and historical research has pieced together an astounding narrative of race and true love in the cauldron of war.Based on a New York Times story by Clark that drew national attention, Enemies in Love paints a tableau of dreams deferred and of love struggling to survive, twentyfive years before the Supreme Courts Loving decision legalizing mixedrace marriagerevealing the surprising possibilities for human connection during one of historys most violent conflicts.
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