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PublisherAgate Publishing, Incorporated

ISBN-101572842458

ISBN-139781572842458

eBay Product ID (ePID)242585741

Product Key Features

Book TitleLast Thing You Surrender

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicWar & Military, African American / General, Literary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorJr. Pitts Leonard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight17.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-033221

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisCould you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese . . . a young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war . . . a black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion.Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. What does it take to change someone's mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed?, Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire? Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist ( Freeman ) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese . . . a young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war . . . a black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion. Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. What does it take to change someone's mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed?, The latest novel by bestselling author Leonard Pitts, Jr. Set during World War II and centered on two families--one white, one black--this is a page-turning American epic of race and war.

LC Classification NumberPS3616.I92