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020 _a9780823249497
020 _z9780823239771 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z9780823239788 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0823239772
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aUB320
_b.S43 2012
082 0 0 _a355.2/230904
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245 0 0 _aScraping the barrel
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 /
_cedited by Sanders Marble.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bFordham University Press,
_c2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (336 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aInvalid 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aSociology, Military
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aSociology, Military
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aRecruiting and enlistment
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aRecruiting and enlistment
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aMarble, Sanders.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823249497/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c35790
_d35790