Scraping the barrel
Subtitle: the military use of substandard manpower, 1860-1960
By: edited by Sanders Marble
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780823239771; 9780823239788
Subjects: Recruiting and enlistment; Military Sociology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Invalid soldiers, federal manpower needs, and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps during the Civil War era / Paul Cimbala; title: A grand illusion? German reserves, 1815-1914 / Dennis Showalter; title: Manifestly inferior? French reserves, 1871-1914 / André José Lambelet; title: "Each one a pocket hercules": the Bantam experiment and the case of the Thirty-Fifth Division / Peter Simkins; title: Scraping the barrel: African American troops and World War I / Steven Short; title: Below the bar: the U.S. Army and limited service manpower / Sanders Marble; title: Soviet use of "substandard" manpower in the Red Army, 1941-1945 / David Glantz; title: German Bodenstandig Divisions / Walter Dunn; title: Recruiting Volksdeutsche for the Waffen-SS: from skimming the cream to scraping the dregs / Valdis O. Lumans; title: The ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in combat: dregs or gems? / Valdis O. Lumans; title: Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and afterward / Thomas Sticht.