Sword of Valor

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 only 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.Willard, Tom is the author of 'Sword of Valor', published 2004 under ISBN 9780812575538 and ISBN 0812575539.