Image: Hansi Lo Wang/NPRīut in the end, the Hellfighters left town without a major incident. Reginald Sanders, former commander of the 369th Sustainment Brigade, and The Harlem Hellfighters author Max Brooks tour the 369th Regiment Armory in New York City. the first state to secede from the Union."Ĭol. "The whole nation was keyed up for another race riot, and you're sending northern black troops to train in South Carolina.
Tense standoffs arose between the Hellfighters and white residents in Spartanburg. Just weeks earlier, the arrival of another African-American regiment sparked a race riot in Houston. Their first battle was during training camp in Spartanburg, S.C., in October 1917. But Sanders hasn't forgotten the unit's early history of fighting on the front lines in France and in the U.S. Today's Hellfighters specialize in combat logistics in places like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Mali. "Our enemies gave us our name, is an honor." Reginald Sanders, a former commander of the 369th Sustainment Brigade, which descended from the original World War I unit. "We did not give ourselves our name ," says Col. Image: Caanan White/Courtesy of Broadway Books You can also read my fiction over on Amazon.The Hellfighters wore steel Adrian helmets issued by the French army. And take a look at my Patreon page, where I’m working on a novel and developing a tabletop RPG setting. Check out my Facebook, Twitter, or Goodreads. If you like what I do, you can buy me a coffee. Here’s hoping that changes, as it’s a heck of a story and one that should be more well known. It came about because Brooks (and others, apparently) couldn’t get the money to make a film version. There were more than a few times where I had a hard time figuring out just what was happening as my eye couldn’t focus. If it had color or perhaps a more nuanced grayscale, I think it could have been greatly improved. This is made a bit worse by the comic being in black & white. Sometimes it looks great while at others it seems too busy. I’m not in love with Caanan White’s art style. From training with broomsticks to facing home-mandated segregation even in war-torn Europe, they fought on all sides. While the main cast of characters are fictional, they do interact with historic figures and the things they go through are based on real challenges faced by the men of the 369th. Brooks teams with artist Caanan White to tell the story of the 369th Infantry Regiment, an African American unit that saw some really horrible stuff in a really horrible war.įacing racism at home, these men still took up arms to fight for the nation that sadly didn’t fight for them. I have to admit, I was not expecting Max Brooks’s follow up to World War Z to be a historical fiction graphic novel about World War I, but here we are.
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