The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War

A book that I would like to read, there was a short part about him in one of my American Legion magazines a few years ago, very interesting read sir MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

This is a remarkable book about a remarkable man. The author, Professor Chad Williams, has given us a solid and extremely readable study of the man and the book he sadly never completed: W. E. B. Du Bois and his account of the African American experience in the First World War. Had this encyclopedic endeavor been completed and published, I think it could have become the definitive account of Black America’s participation in the war. Nevertheless, after reading Professor Williams’s 530-page work we have a clear understanding of what Du Bois wanted his work to cover, and we also get considerable insight into the character, genius, and foibles of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963).

Thanks for keeping history alive MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.