We Fought the Road
- ISBN-10
- 1935347888
- ISBN-13
- 9781935347880
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-15
- Publisher
- Epicenter Press
- Authors
- Christine McClure, Dennis McClure
Description
We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers
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