**作家和插画家Ashley Bryan带来的一本感人至深的绘本传记，讲述了他二战期间在实行种族隔离的军队服役，以及爱和对艺术的追求让他得以活下来的故事。

1942年5月，年仅18岁的Ashley Bryan被征召参加第二次世界大战。在接下来的三年中，因为所在的部队实行种族隔离，他亲历了战争的恐怖。

他承受了白人军官所说的关于种族隔离的可怕谎言。 他受到的待遇甚至比纳粹战俘还要差。 他被分配了最恐怖的任务，例如埋葬阵亡士兵……但由于媒体不希望黑人士兵进入新闻稿，他被告知首先要把黑人士兵搬走。他等啊等，非常想回家。他眼睁睁看着每一个白人士兵平安地返回美国，而黑人士兵甚至都不在考虑之内。

在接下来的40年中，阿什利（Ashley）将自己的战争经历埋藏在心里。但是现在，他讲出了他的故事。

帮助过他的好心人的故事。
引导他度过黑暗时刻的光明时刻的故事。
他对艺术的热情的一次又一次拯救他的故事。

纽伯瑞奖获奖插画家Ashley Bryan撰写的这本富有启发性和感人至深的回忆录既是一堂历史课，也是希望的见证。里面充满了从公开过的插画，手写的信件和日记。

From celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army during World War II, and how love and the pursuit of art sustained him.

In May of 1942, at the age of eighteen, Ashley Bryan was drafted to fight in World War II. For the next three years, he would face the horrors of war as a black soldier in a segregated army.

He endured the terrible lies white officers told about the black soldiers to isolate them from anyone who showed kindness

—including each other. He received worse treatment than even Nazi POWs. He was assigned the grimmest, most horrific tasks, like burying fallen soldiers…but was told to remove the black soldiers first because the media didn’t want them in their newsreels. And he waited and wanted so desperately to go home, watching every white soldier get safe passage back to the United States before black soldiers were even a thought.

For the next forty years, Ashley would keep his time in the war a secret. But now, he tells his story.

The story of the kind people who supported him.
The story of the bright moments that guided him through the dark.
And the story of his passion for art that would save him time and time again.

Filled with never-before-

seen artwork and handwritten letters and diary entries, this illuminating and moving memoir by Newbery Honor–

winning illustrator Ashley Bryan is both a lesson in history and a testament to hope.