No Better Time (2024) by Sheila Williams

No Better Time (2024)
A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
A novel by Sheila Williams

The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II¡ªthe 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict.

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Women¡¯s Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing for adventure, she has one question for the recruiter: ¡°Do you think I¡¯ll get to go abroad?¡±

As Dorothy and her sister WACs discover, life in the Army is an adventure filled with unexpected deprivations and culture shock. Women from all levels of society, secretaries, teachers, and sharecroppers, work together to navigate a military segregated by race and gender. At boot camp, the ¡°colored girls¡± are separated for processing. At Ft. Riley, the women¡¯s barracks are rustic and heated by coal-burning pot-bellied stoves while German POWs spend their incarceration in buildings with central heat and hot water.

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