The Flag Never Touched The Ground (eBook)

America's Brave Black Regiment in Battle

Kekla Magoon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
144 Seiten
Pushkin Children's Books (Verlag)
978-1-78269-306-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The story of an all-black regiment's assault on the impregnable Fort Wagner in the Civil War, an act of extraordinary courage that changed hearts and minds in America for everTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. 1863.On a cold beach in South Carolina, the soldiers of the 54th Massachussets Regiment are marching into battle. Their mission: to capture the impregnable Fort Wagner. The odds are heavily against them, and the stakes could not be higher - they are one of the first all-Black regiments in the Union Army, and all of America is watching them.Among their ranks is William Harvey Carney. A former enslaved man who escaped to the North, he knows what a precious thing freedom is. So when the bugle sounds, and the regimental flag is hoisted high, William charges towards the guns.An author, speaker and writing teacher, Kekla Magoon has been longlisted for the National Book Award, received an NAACP Image Award, and three Coretta Scott King Awards. She initially studied history at Northwestern University in the US, and loves to uncover the stories of the brave and creative people who have come before us. Her books about civil rights and social justice in America include X, a novel about Malcolm X co-written with his daughter, and The Rock and the River, about a young boy torn between his civil rights leader father and his Black Panther brother.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: True Adventures
• Reihe/Serie: True Adventures
• Illustrationen: Amerigo Pinelli
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Schlagworte: 54th Regiment • Abraham Lincoln • adventure series • Black History • Children's Adventure story • Civil Rights • Civil War • Colonel Shaw • Frederick Douglass • Glory • historical fiction • illustrated adventure • Kekla Magoon • True Adventures • US Civil War
• ISBN-10: 1-78269-306-8 / 1782693068
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78269-306-2 / 9781782693062