false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256078717m/7017532.jpg 23438 18 In <I>Miracle at St. Anna</I>, James McBride, author of the bestselling memoir <I>The Color of Water</I>, tells a war story that, like all great tales of conflict, connects the enormous tragedy of war with the intimate stories of individual soldiers. <I>Miracle at St. Anna</I> vividly follows four of the U.S. Army's 92nd Division of all-black buffalo soldiers as they become trapped between forces beyond their control and between worlds. Three of the soldiers have bolted behind enemy lines to rescue their comrade, the colossal, but simple, Private Sam Train. They find themselves stranded between worlds in a remote central Italian village, with the German Army hidden on one side and their racist and largely mismanaged American commanding officers on the other. The strange world of the village floats between myth and reality, where belief in magic coexists with the most horrific acts of war. In the melee that opens the book, the giant Sam Train suddenly comes to believe he can turn invisible, the local miser believes he is cursed with a wealth of rabbits, and each of the other soldiers also exists in a mythical world of his own. But they are all about to be shattered by the Miracle. <p> McBride illuminates an ironic moment in American history, a time when black soldiers fought bravely for the country whose "freedoms" included Jim Crow laws, segregation, and institutional and widespread personal racism. <I>Miracle at St. Anna</I> puts these intimate stories at the center of the much larger story of the struggle of people of color in this country. Each character is trapped and forced to act as nobly and as bravely as he can in the midst of forces beyond not only his control, but beyond his world. <I>--Paul Ford</I> 269058 2001 Miracle at St. Anna total:519|5:91|4:187|3:180|2:50|1:11| 519 1854 849 130 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 5 2 false Mon Apr 14 05:35:32 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 05:40:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 08:07:36 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 08:09:20 -0800 2009
My son took me to see the movie and I had to read it afterwards. I wasn't disappointed.]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 4 0 false Sat Feb 14 10:37:35 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 10:46:25 -0800 2009 One hears little about this part of t...more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 3 0 false Sat Sep 05 20:30:59 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 01:11:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 2 0 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 04:49:53 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 17:06:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 3 0 true Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 13:39:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:32:05 -0700 2009
This book is very hard to rate. It is extremely well written and that alone should merit more stars than the number I gave. The storyline is brutal and disturbing and full of suffering and cruelty, just like war itself. I found it hard to follow all of the battle sc...more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 2 0 true Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 18:55:54 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 15:36:55 -0800 2009
The book tells the story of a small group of Buffalo Soldiers in Italy in WWII. There were very interesting juxtapositions of the way the black soldier was treated and the German pris...more...]]> 4913126 1594483604 9781594483608 15 9 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256078707m/4913126.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4913126.Miracle_At_St_Anna_Movie_Tie_In 3 0 false Fri Feb 20 07:02:26 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:39:35 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 07:02:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4913126 1594483604 9781594483608 15 9 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256078707m/4913126.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4913126.Miracle_At_St_Anna_Movie_Tie_In 5 0 false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 07:28:34 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 21:32:27 -0700 2009
Set in Italy, towards the end of World War II...the lives of four men are changed forever. The simplicity of the Chocolate Giant as he lets love take over, the avoidance techniq...more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 3 0 false Sat Feb 07 13:34:05 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 13:52:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 16:23:52 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 10:33:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:30:17 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:38:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 3 0 false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 04:23:11 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 04:28:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4913126 1594483604 9781594483608 15 9 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256078707m/4913126.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4913126.Miracle_At_St_Anna_Movie_Tie_In 0 0 false Wed Oct 08 19:19:01 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 19:19:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 3 0 false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 30 14:31:47 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 12 19:02:08 -0800 2008
McBride is a gifted aut...more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 4 0 false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 10:48:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 10:05:52 -0700 2009
Just finished this book, and I have to say that reading the book after seeing the movie is definitely the way to go. It usually occurs the other way around, where the book ...more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 0 0 false Fri Aug 21 09:21:25 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:27:56 -0700 2009
I was drawn into reading this book by my love of his earlier work and by a crafty first paragraph. I'm no stranger to the war story or even epic...more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 5 0 false Wed May 20 08:26:31 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:36:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 23438 1573229717 9781573229715 475 112 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167404777m/23438.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23438.Miracle_at_St_Anna 5 0 false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 07 14:36:47 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 12 14:11:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1713779 1573222127 9781573222129 15 2 3.57 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187289535m/1713779.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713779.Miracle_at_St_Anna 4 0 false Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 21 13:48:56 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 22:45:43 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/1?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/3?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/2?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/4?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/5?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/6?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/7?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/9?book_id=7017532 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/10?book_id=7017532