Kate Werran Knihy

The dramatic story of one of the earliest successes of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Yanks re-examines the UK and USA's 'special relationship' in the build up to D-Day

This is the first-time telling of an extraordinary Second World War story about a mutiny among African American soldiers in Britain and the court martial that followed. Not only did the drama grip the United Kingdom and America - it just happened to involve soldiers from one of the battalion's that went on famously to face Omaha Beach on D-Day.