Product Description: Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying unit in the US military, were some of the most decorated servicemen of the Army Air Forces during World War II. Trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, these courageous men flew more than 1,500 missions...read more

“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life.After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on dog, loves four wives, and sees his people butchered by horse soldiers commanded by General George Armstrong Custer. Later, living as a white man once more, he hunts the buffalo to near-extinction, tangles with Wyatt Earp, cheats Wild Bill Hickok, and fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn alongside Custer himself—a man he’d sworn to kill. Hailed by The Nation as “a seminal event,” Little Big Man is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age.Praise for Little Big Man   “An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us.”—Henry Miller   “The very best novel ever about the American West.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Spellbinding . . . [Crabb] surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed.”—Time   “Superb . . . Berger’s success in capturing the points of view and emotional atmosphere of a vanished era is uncanny. His skill in characterization, his narrative power and his somewhat cynical humor are all outstanding.”—The New York Times

Product Description: Tens of thousands of Americans flew aircraft in World War II. These brave young men risked their lives by serving their country. And they were greatly admired for their courage and their piloting skills. But many white Americans did not want blacks to become pilots...read more

Product Description: In the 1940s, when the world was at war, finding enough pilots for the military was a national challenge. The solution came from a small university tucked in the middle of Alabama. Tuskegee University was teaching African Americans how to fly but was the rest of the world ready to accept black pilots? In the beginning, the answer was a clear no...read more

Describes the role of the African American pilots who trained at Alabama's Tuskagee Army Air Field to fight in World War II, highlighting the contributions they made to the war effort despite racial discrimination and segregation.

Describes the role of the African American pilots who trained at Alabama's Tuskagee Army Air Field to fight in World War II, highlighting the contributions they made to the war effort despite racial discrimination and segregation.

Examines the history of the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama and the African-American pilots who overcame the racism and discrimination and served the United States in the Second World War. (view table of contents)

Introduces the struggles and accomplishments of the African American pilots who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II, as they and their crews battled racism at home and the enemy in the skies of Europe. (view table of contents)

Describes the role of the African American pilots who trained at Alabama's Tuskegee Army Air Field to fight in World War II.

Covers early Black aviation, and the struggles and glories of the 99th Fighter Squadron which trained near Tuskegee Institute in Alabama

Interviews with surviving pilots and archival photographs help tell the story of the hugely successful Tuskegee Airmen, the only African-American pilots to fight in World War II.