Winner of the Gold Medal for MemoirBiography from the Military Writers Society of America A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A whale of a tale told clearly and quickly. I read the entire book in almost one sitting.Thomas E. Ricks New York Times Book Review The incredible story of the first African American military pilot who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community. When his journey led him to Europe he garnered worldwide fame as a boxer and later as the first African American fighter pilot in history. After the war Bullard returned to Paris a celebrated hero. But little did he know that the dramatic globespanning arc of his life had just begun. All Blood Runs Red is the inspiring untold story of an American hero a thoughtprovoking chronicle of the twentieth century and a portrait of a man who came from nothing and by his own courage determination gumption intelligence and luck forged a legendary life. show more