The Americans

by Target, G[eorge]. W

Description

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, top corners lightly bumped, mild dust-soiling to top edge, small bookseller's stamp on front pastedown; jacket a little edgeworn, soiling to rear panel]. "To the small Kentish town of Gorsley come the Americans -- a detachment of U.S.A.F. Strategic Air Command to 'reactivate' the famous old Battle of Britain airfield, Gorsley Green. Panic and outrage inflame some of the Public Faces of the town, but the ordinary people meet the Americans on the streets of Gorsley and get to know them as the men they are: proud, with reason for pride, lonely, afraid, far from home, friendly, anxious to be liked, in all points tempted and vulnerable as other men. Central characters of this richly ornamented story are Rebecca Bernstein, a young Jewish art student, and Barry Collins, a negro from North Carolina, both sensitive, easily hurt, war; and, as they fumble their way through race and colour towards accepting each other as man and woman, not a Jew and Negro, they learn and teach that human dignity means more than all the big words in the world." . Very Good+ in Very Good dj.