A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American Gis, and Germany, Hardcover

This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad.

MARIA H HN teaches German History at Vassar College, USA and is an established scholar of the American military presence in Germany.

MARTIN A. KLIMKE is a Research Fellow at the Heidelberg Centre for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.