Just Beneath the Soil: World War II Through the Eyes of Its Last Witnesses

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Lawrence grew up in Jim Crow Mississippi, and Smith had always wondered what his uncle felt, fighting fascism and racial hatred on behalf of a country that was subjecting him and his family to racial apartheid. His uncle’s experience didn’t jibe with the story of World War II as the “good war” Smith learned at school.

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