The I Index

Jennifer Szalai,
The New York Times
A running theme in Delmont’s book — the prescience with which Black Americans identified the fascist threat while much of the United States was still in an isolationist mood.
Cate Lineberry,
The New York Times Book Review
Poignant and unflinching.

Los Angeles Review of Books
An incisive overview of African Americans during World War II.
Mark Knoblauch,
Booklist
Delmont delves deeper to tell the story of African Americans who had recognized the fascist threat a decade earlier and volunteered for the republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
Michael Farrell,
Library Journal
What is sure to become the standard text on the experience of Black U.S. soldiers—enrolled in segregated units of all the military branches—who fought in World War II.
Deborah Mason,
BookPage
This book would have been a significant contribution to our knowledge of World War II history even if Delmont had only focused on the performance of African American combat troops.

Kirkus
Delmont sets the record straight.

Publishers Weekly
Revelatory.