001477875 000__ 07207nam\a22009015i\4500 001477875 001__ 1477875 001477875 003__ DE-B1597 001477875 005__ 20231026034834.0 001477875 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477875 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477875 008__ 230103t20222012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477875 020__ $$a9780823292530 001477875 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823292530$$2doi 001477875 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565945 001477875 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306541604 001477875 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477875 0410_ $$aeng 001477875 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477875 072_7 $$aHIS027000$$2bisacsh 001477875 24500 $$aScraping the Barrel :$$bThe Military Use of Substandard Manpower, 1860-1960 /$$ced. by Sanders Marble. 001477875 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477875 264_4 $$c©2012 001477875 300__ $$a1 online resource (372 p.) 001477875 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477875 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477875 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477875 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477875 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps -- $$t2 A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815-1914 -- $$t3 Manifestly Inferior? French Reserves, 1871-1914 -- $$t4 Each One a Pocket Hercules: The Bantam Experiment and the Case of the Thirty-fifth Division -- $$t5 Scraping the Barrel: African American Troops and World War I -- $$t6 Below the Bar: The U.S. Army and Limited Service Manpower -- $$t7 Soviet Use of Substandard Manpower in the Red Army, 1941-1945 -- $$t8 German Bodenstandig Divisions -- $$t9 Recruiting Volksdeutsche for the Waffen-SS: From Skimming the Cream to Scraping the Dregs -- $$t10 The Ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in Combat: Dregs or Gems? -- $$t11 Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and Afterward -- $$tConclusions -- $$tNotes -- $$tContributors -- $$tIndex 001477875 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477875 520__ $$aIt 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 André 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 men used 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 physical and racial standards, and Walter Dunn and Valdis Lumans look at these changing policies as well as the battlefield performance of these men. In relating the stories of the substandard (for the military), Scraping the Barrel is also a humanist history of the military, of the more average men who have served their countries and how they were put to use. It throws light on how militaries' ideas of fitness reflect the underlying views of their societies. The idea of "disability" has been constructed based on a variety of physical, yes, but also social standards: as a value judgment on groups viewed as lesser-the aged, the lower classes, and those of different races and ethnic identities. From the American Civil War, through World Wars I and II, through the U.S. Project 100,000 in the Cold War, substandard men have been mobilized, have served, and have fought for their countries. These men are the inverse of the elites who get the lion's share of our attention. This is their untold history. 001477875 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477875 546__ $$aIn English. 001477875 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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