Sword of Valor - Black Sabre Chronicles Author:Tom Willard The Black Sabre Chronicles, detailing the huge contributions that African Americans have made to the military throughout American history, concludes with Sword of Valor. — Lieutenant Argonne Sharps is the fifth generation of the Sharps, a military family which has fought America’s wars for 130 years. — She is a West Pointer and the on... more »ly black female pilot in the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" division.
Flying a Kiowa reconnaissance helicopter in the Persian Gulf War, Lt. Sharps is thrown into a perilous assignment: to extract a Special Forces officer Jerome Moody who has parachuted into enemy territory to meet with insurgents fighting Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces.
Tom Willard’s intimate knowledge of combat -- earned in Vietnam -- gives Sword of Valor, final book in the "Black Sabre Chronicles," a special ring of authenticity as the brief, high-tech, Gulf War unfolds and the Sharps family history of warfare unfolds with it.« less