THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS - The Untold History of Native Americans in the U.S. Army

Throughout his career as a foreign correspondent, Emmanuel Razavi had the opportunity to spend time on numerous occasions among the Native Americans of Canada and the United States. Over the years, he made friends among the Sioux, the Mohawks, the Cheyennes and the Navajos.

Thanks to them, he was able to obtain exceptional interviews with the last veterans of the American wars.

In this book he examines the role of Native Americans in the "American Expeditionary Forces" and subsequently in the contingents that served during the Second World War, in Korea, in Vietnam, in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

For while Americans have little fondness for indigenous peoples, the army regards them with respect, integrating them into its ranks as snipers, scouts, radio operators, pilots, logisticians or instructors. Some of the best also serve in special forces. Yet their feats of arms long remained confidential. For reasons of national security, the U.S. Army waited until the 1960s, for example, to make public the story of the Navajo and Choctaw code talkers who used their native languages to deceive German and Japanese listeners. The same applies to certain special operations conducted in Vietnam in which Cheyenne and Sioux fighters took part.

The interviews conducted in this book finally bring them into the spotlight. Franco-Iranian, Emmanuel Razavi is a journalist and specialist in the Middle East.