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Scraping the Barrel:The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Sanders Marble
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-02 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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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
Scraping the Barrel
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Sanders Marble
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher:

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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, t
Scraping the Barrel
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Sanders Marble
Categories: Recruiting and enlistment
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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
Scraping the Barrel
Language: en
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Authors: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Categories: American fiction
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Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essent
The British Army and the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: Ian Beckett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.