Scraping the Barrel : the Military Use of Substandard Manpower, 1860-1960 /

"It is a truism that history is written by the victors, and perhaps doubly so of military history, where the tendency is to relate the biggest battles, the most victorious and heroic deeds, the very best (or worst) of men. This book stands as a corrective to this belief. Scraping the Barrel cov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Marble, Sanders (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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.
HISTORY > Military > United States.
Recruiting and enlistment.
Sociology, Military.
Electronic book.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sanders Marble
  • Federal manpower needs and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps / Paul A. Cimbala
  • A grand illusion? German reserves, 1815-1914 / Dennis Showalter
  • Manifestly inferior? French reserves, 1871-1914 / André José Lambelet
  • "Each one a pocket Hercules" : the Bantam experiment and the case of the Thirty-Fifth Division / Peter Simkins
  • Scraping the barrel : African American troops and World War I / Steven Short
  • Below the bar : the U.S. Army and limited service manpower / Sanders Marble
  • Soviet use of "substandard" manpower in the Red Army, 1941-1945 / David Glantz
  • German Bodenstandig Divisions / Walter Dunn
  • Recruiting Volksdeutsche for the Waffen-SS : from skimming the cream to scraping the dregs / Valdis O. Lumans
  • The ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in combat : dregs or gems? / Valdis O. Lumans
  • Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and afterward / Thomas Sticht
  • Conclusion / Sanders Marble.

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