Enemies in love

Alexis Clark First published 2018

About this book

"This is the nonfiction love story of Elinor Powell, an African American army nurse, and Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war. The two met when black army nurses were put in regular contact with German POWs who were detained in the United States during World War II, an unlikely and little-discussed circumstance during one of the most documented periods in history"--

Subjects

african americans
american prisoners and prisons
armed forces
biography
history / african american
history / united states / 20th century
interethnic marriage
intermarriage
medical care
nurses
nurses, biography
prisoners of war
social science / discrimination & race relations
united states
united states, army nurse corps
united states. army nurse corps
world war, 1939-1945
world war, 1939-1945, african americans
world war, 1939-1945, biography
world war, 1939-1945, medical care
world war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, american