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Bailey, Hubert. Black Boy What Are You Fighting For
DS 921.6 B3
Captured in by the enemy in early 1951, Medic Roy Calhoun
spent the rest of the time in a POW camp. The title of this short
booklet comes from a taunt by Captain Lue, the Chinese Commandant
of the camp. The book is a flashback told to the author some years later.
Several months after Calhouns' internment, five paratroopers arrive in the camp, surly, cocky and gunning to escape. Pointing out the poor treatment blacks received in America in the past and even to that present day, Lue tries to
pry Calhoun to inform on his fellow POWs. Captain Lue even tries to get Calhoun to defect to China after the
Armistice is signed, luring him with tales of the glory of Chinese
Socialized Medicine. Neither attempt is successful. Calhouns' tender encounters with the Chinese medic assigned to the camp add a sombre note to the book.
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