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Scraping the barrel the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960
Title
Scraping the barrel [electronic resource] : the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 / edited by Sanders Marble.
ISBN
9780823249497
0823239772
9780823239771
9780823239788
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (336 p.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Invalid soldiers, federal manpower needs, and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps during the Civil War era / Paul Cimbala
A grand illusion? German reserves, 1815-1914 / Dennis Showalter
Manifestly inferior? French reserves, 1871-1914 / Andre Jose 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.
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