Beyond Their Limits of Longing French History if only he can come

if only he can come out of the war alive

and of the fates of the ships that comprised that fleet

and Staten Island

for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I

Beyond Their Limits of Longing French History if only he can comeDescription Edited by Jennifer Orth Veillon, PhD. Paperback In America, WWI became overshadowed by WWII and Vietnam, further diluting the voices of poets, novelists, essayists, and scholars who unknowingly set a precedent for all successive war writers who appear in this collection. Those who survived WWI and wrote about it opened the space for readers and writers alike to explore the complexity both of war's physical and mental horrors and of its