Enfin je vole ! : Eugène Bullard, pilote dans l’armée française

ENFIN JE VOLE ! : EUGèNE BULLARD, PILOTE DANS L’ARMéE FRANçAISE

Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard

• Publishing Company:

  SYLVAIN COISSARD AGENCY/SCOUT

• Imprint:

  MARABULLES

• Format:

  SERIES

• Creator(s):

  BRAHM REVEL (STORY)

  RONALD WIMBERLY (ART)

  LAURE PICARD-PHILIPPON (TRANSLATION)

• Number of Pages:

  336

• Cover price:

  € 30.00

• Publication Date:

  May 2023

• Age:

  YOUNG ADULT, ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  BIOGRAPHY, WORLD WAR 1, BLACK HISTORY,

• Summary:

  On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies. In 1914, Bullard joined the fight to defend France―and made history as the world’s first African American fighter pilot.

  In this candid but sensitive portrait of Bullard, author Ronald Wimberly balances the personal and the historical to interrogate concepts of cynicism, idealism, fear, glory, and the pervasiveness of anti-Black racism.