ISBN10: 0823239772, ISBN13: 9780823239771, [publisher: Fordham University Press] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

ISBN10: 0823239772, ISBN13: 9780823239771, [publisher: FORDHAM UNIV PR] Hardcover From the dawn of organized conflict, sub-standard men--the inverse of the elites that get the lion s share of our attention-- have served their countries. This is their untold history. OR The untold story of the use of sub-standard men in .
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2012]
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ISBN10: 0823239772, ISBN13: 9780823239771, [publisher: Fordham University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. It is a truism that history is written by the victors, and perhaps this is doubly so of military history, where the tendency is to relate the biggest battles, the most victorious and heroic deeds, the very best (or worst) of men. This book stands as a corrective to this belief.Scraping the Barrel covers ten cases of armies using substandard manpower in wars from 1860 to the 1960s. Dennis Showalter and Andre Lambelet look at the changing standards in Germany and France leading up to World War I, while Peter Simkins chronicles what happened with the Bantams, special units of short menused by Britain in the Great War.Often the use of substandard men was to answer the sheer need for manpower in brutal, lasting conflicts, as Paul A. Cimbala writes of the U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps in the Civil War, or to keep war-damaged men active; sometimes this ethos was used to include men who wanted to fight but who otherwise would have been excluded, as Steven W. Short writes of the U.S. colored troops in World War I.In the second World War it was to answer more dire exigencies, as David Glantz relates how the USSR, having suffered enormous losses, threw away many pre-war standards, reaching for women, ethnic/national minorities, and political prisoners alike to fill units. Likewise, Nazi Germany, facing many fronts and a finite manpower pool, was compelled to relax both ph ...

ISBN10: 0823239772, ISBN13: 9780823239771, [publisher: Fordham University Press] Hardcover From the dawn of organized conflict, sub-standard men--the inverse of the elites that get the lion's share of our attention-- have served their countries. This is their untold history. OR The untold story of the use of sub-standard men in militaries, from the American Civil War to the dawn of the Cold War Editor(s): Marble, Sanders. Num Pages: 372 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]