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Scraping the barrel the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 / edited by Sanders Marble.
| Other author | Marble, Sanders. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, |
| Description | vi, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books History 2012 Subject Collection |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011037012 |
| ISBN | 9780823239771 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0823239772 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780823239788 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0823239780 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |