At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback]

At Night All Blood Is Black [Paperback]Description by David Diop Paperback Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so called Chocolat soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Mans Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfas mind

Theodore Roosevelt

Thoroughly researched

and wild extravagance

later termed the “Black Chamber

Intervening in long-standing historical debates

it tells the story of those men responsible for the flight

his most famous patient

and creativity of the pathbreaking protesters who changed the course of American history

Protagonist Claude Wheeler

No single human invention has altered the nature of war more than the airplane

more than half a million of them Americans

the Nelson Atkins-Museum of Art