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A "New & Noteworthy" selection of The New York Times Book
Review "Alexis 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. . . .
Clark's voice is engaging, and her tale universal." --Jon Meacham,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House A true and
deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a
shocking, hidden history of race on the home front This 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 Hitler's army, captured by the Allies and shipped to a
prisoner-of-war camp in the Arizona desert. Like most other black
nurses, Elinor pulled a second-class assignment, in a dusty,
sun-baked--and segregated--Western 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, twenty-five years
before the Supreme Court's Loving decision legalizing mixed-race
marriage--revealing the surprising possibilities for human
connection during one of history's most violent conflicts.
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