Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans Roaring Twenties at Versailles

at Versailles

5 million Jews

an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering ordinary men to risk their lives in an impossible cause

as battles raged in the trenches and in the air

Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans Roaring Twenties at VersaillesDescription By Brian Altobello Paperback As the US entered World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a strong cultural tie to the Allies, and French speakers from Louisiana provided vital technical assistance to the US military during the war effort. Meanwhile, citizens of German heritage were harassed by unscrupulous, ill trained volunteers of the American