A review by amysutton
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone

3.0

I absolutely loved learning about the Trip Nickels and other diverse groups in WWII America. This book was very well researched and I actually learned about a few other books that I want to read now. I'll admit that I've only really learned a lot about the Tuskegee airmen, so reading more about other troops was great. It's heartbreaking to hear the first hand accounts and the reality of what African American soldiers had to overcome. I think I was especially shocked to learn that European POWs were allowed more privileges and more respect on base than the black American soldiers.

I only wish that this information was a bit better edited and organized. The book gave a lot of great info about the 555th Infantry, but it also scattered in random paragraphs about Japanese-Americans and Japanese balloon bombs and President Truman taking office and POWs. Stone said in the epilogue, “I chose parts of the larger history that were needed to give readers the context to better understand the contents of this story.” It is true that she added so much information from so many great sources. But to me, it felt a bit disjointed. She even mentioned that she got sidetracked on researching Japanese balloon bombs for a month.