Captain Blackman

Captain Blackman by John A. Williams. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781566890960.

Vividly brings to life the history of African Americans in the military. Named among the most important works of fiction of the decade by when first published in 1972, this is the first book to be published in Coffee House Press’s Black Arts Movement reprint series. True to form, John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical research of the significant role played by African Americans in the military. Captain Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he hallucinates back in time as a solider in each of America’s wars from 1775 to 1975.