Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's powerful first novel, one which looks at Black life in wartime America - in fact, the back cover of the dust jacket expands on this theme, as it is promoting "Buy war bonds," Bucklin notes "that the Negro should be fighting in such a war may seem to some ironic since he has know precious little of freedom since he was first landed on these shores by slave trader. . Now again, the Negro is fighting, he was on Bataan, he is now in Africa... " One of the major crusaders of the left, Bucklin Moon was also one of the leading American liberals in race relations in the 1940s, although his literary career and his position as an editor at Doubleday came to an end when he was named as a Communist symphathizer by McCarthy's infamous HUAC. 246 pp.