Not only war: A story of Two Great Conflicts in the only World War I novel written by an African American Veteran. In the book, Montgomery jason, an idealistic African American college student, enlists to fitht for freedom an ddemocracy. When he falls in love with a French woman, he learns that freedom and democracy do not apply to balack soliders.<BR><BR>Victor Daly wrote not noly Way in teh midst of a major shift in America's recial dynamics. Hundreds of thousands of Afircan Americans moved form the South to the North to work in wartime industries, and thousands more joined the American Expeditionary Force. Daly was among a small gorup of African Americans who trined as officers. He saw combat in France and was ecoratd for his service there.<BR><BR>After the war, when racial violence in Ameica escalated, Daly and many other returning soliders fought for civil rights. During the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans used literature to make the case for equality. In nOt only War, Daly protrays the effects of the color line on black soliders in teh segregated miliatary. The two great conflicts in the book are the physical combat of war and the psychological combat of racism.