Scraping the barrel
Scraping the barrel the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 / [electronic resource] :
edited by Sanders Marble.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780823249497
Sociology, Military--History--19th century.
Sociology, Military--History--20th century.
Recruiting and enlistment--History--19th century.
Recruiting and enlistment--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
UB320 / .S43 2012
355.2/230904
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780823249497
Sociology, Military--History--19th century.
Sociology, Military--History--20th century.
Recruiting and enlistment--History--19th century.
Recruiting and enlistment--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
UB320 / .S43 2012
355.2/230904