What an amazing life Eugene Bullard lived! This book is packed with so much history, and I learned a lot about how the American Legion started, about how Black Americans were treated in France vs in America, and about how crazy the times were between the two wars. There were also long lists of people who definitely deserve to be remembered for their bravery, like the pilots who located troops pinned down behind enemy lines and were able to limp home in a damaged plane and convey the details that saved so many even while they lost their own lives.

Honestly, my favorite parts were the years between the wars. Eugene must have been very charismatic and so talented to adapt and learn to ride horses, work on ships, box, manage boxers, fly planes, play the drums, manage night clubs, be fluent in multiple languages....the list goes on and on. You could definitely play six degrees of Eugene Bullard and make so many connections to people like Picasso, Langston Hughes, Bricktop and more. Having recently read Alice Randall's "Black Bottom Saints," I loved seeing a lot of the same characters in Eugene's circle.