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Copyright © 2017 by Denise George and Robert Child
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: George, Denise, author. | Child, Robert, 1963– author.
Title: The lost eleven: the forgotten story of black American soldiers brutally massacred in World War II/Denise George and Robert Child.
Description: First edition. | New York: Caliber, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016041981 (print) | LCCN 2016056855 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101987391 | ISBN 9781101987407 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 333rd. | World War, 1939–1945—Participation, African American. | World War, 1939–1945—Atrocities—Belgium—Wereth. | Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944–1945. | Wereth (Belgium)—History, Military—20th century.
Classification: LCC D769.34 333rd .G46 2017 (print) | LCC D769.34 333rd (ebook) | DDC 940.54/1273—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016041981
First Edition: January 2017
Jacket photographs: snowy landscape © Dirk Wüstenhagen/Westend61/Corbis; soldiers © Bettman/Getty Images
Jacket design by Steve Meditz
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