Brown Sky

By David Covin

..". the army got its own rules of logic.Once the rules is set, they's set in concrete . It do not matter if them rules say the sky is brown . It don't matter worth a damn what yo eyes be tellin' you ...." With these words, Negro Sgt. Wilderness Jones introduces Negro 2nd Lt. Stephen Wenders to the reality of the U.S. Army, circa World War II, thus opening the b ook on the exploits of one of the most unique military outfits in American fiction- the Third Platoon of Company C of the 4748th Quarter -master Truck Battalion, headquartered at Camp Robinson, Arkansas . Unlike most Negro soldiers of World War II - whether of the real of fictional variety - men of the Third Platoon do not accept the illogic and idiocy of the Brown Sky philosophy . Instead, under the leadership of Stephen and Wilderness, the Third Platoon subverts segregation, disrupts army maneuvers, and faces down southern lawmen and hostile civilians.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910671117
• ISBN13: 9780910671118
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Path Press
• Length: 274 Pages