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Author Clark, Alexis, author.

Title Enemies in love : a German POW, a black nurse, and an unlikely romance / Alexis Clark.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1988982~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  940.547273 CLA    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 251 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.
Subject Albert, Elinor Powell, 1921-2005.
Albert, Frederick.
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Biography.
United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Interethnic marriage -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781620971864 (alkaline paper)
1620971860 (alkaline paper)
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