Scraping the barrel [electronic resource] : the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 / edited by Sanders Marble.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 p.)ISBN:- 9780823249497
- 355.2/230904 23
- UB320 .S43 2012
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.
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