Scraping the barrel : the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960 / edited by Sanders Marble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marble, Sanders.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recruiting and enlistment--History--19th century.

Recruiting and enlistment.

Recruiting and enlistment--History--20th century.

Sociology, Military--History--19th century.

Sociology, Military.

Sociology, Military--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 354 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book looks at the boundary of military history and disability history. Rather than looking at veterans, it looks at case studies of how armies have defined standard and substandard, and have utilized `substandard' personnel. Standard has both physical and cultural components; both change depending on the period and the nation, and change during wars as manpower becomes scarce. The book takes case studies ranging from the American Civil War to the Vietnam War from the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the USSR.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3981-0

0-8232-4949-2

OCLC:

821708110