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The Ballad Of Roy Benavidez The Life And Times Of Americas Most Famous Hispanic War Hero William Sturkey

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The Ballad Of Roy Benavidez The Life And Times Of Americas Most Famous Hispanic War Hero William Sturkey instant download after payment.

Publisher: Basic Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 12.77 MB

Pages: 464

Author: William Sturkey

ISBN: 9781541600263, 1541600266

Language: English

Year: 2024

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The Ballad Of Roy Benavidez The Life And Times Of Americas Most Famous Hispanic War Hero William Sturkey by William Sturkey 9781541600263, 1541600266 instant download after payment.

The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass)
In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at least eight of his comrades that day in a remarkable act of valor that left him permanently disabled. Awarded the Medal of Honor after a yearslong campaign, Benavidez became a highly sought-after public speaker, a living symbol of military heroism, and one of the country’s most prominent Latinos.  
Now, historian William Sturkey tells Benavidez’s life story in full for the first time. Growing up in Jim Crow–era Texas, Benavidez was scorned as “Mexican” despite his family’s deep...