Scraping the Barrel : the Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower.

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This book looks at the boundary of military history and disability history. Rather than looking at veterans, it looks at case studies of how armies have defined standard and substandard, and have utilized `substandard' personnel. Standard has both physical and cultural components; both change d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marble, Sanders
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1800-1999
Recruiting and enlistment > History > 19th century.
Recruiting and enlistment > History > 20th century.
Sociology, Military > History > 19th century.
Sociology, Military > History > 20th century.
Recrutement des armées > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Recrutement des armées > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sociologie militaire > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociologie militaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Recruiting and enlistment
Sociology, Military
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. ArmyÃ?s Veteran Reserve Corps
  • A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815Ã?1914
  • 3 Manifestly Inferior? French Reserves, 1871Ã?1914
  • 4 Each One a Pocket Hercules: The Bantam Experiment and the Case of the Thirty-fifth Division
  • 5 Scraping the Barrel: African American Troops and World War I
  • 6 Below the Bar: The U.S. Army and Limited Service Manpower
  • 7 Soviet Use of Substandard Manpower in the Red Army, 1941Ã?1945
  • 8 German Bodenstandig Divisions
  • 9 Recruiting Volksdeutche for the Waffen-SS: From Skimming the Cream to Scraping the Dregs10 The Ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in Combat: Dregs or Gems?
  • 11 Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and Afterward
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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