TY - BOOK AU - Marble,Sanders ED - Project Muse. TI - Scraping the barrel: the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 SN - 9780823249497 AV - UB320 .S43 2012 U1 - 355.2/230904 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Sociology, Military KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Recruiting and enlistment KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823249497/ ER -