War/Society/Culture – serie
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Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy …
Fighting for Hope
African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America
Inbunden, 2009
781 kr
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This fascinating history shows how African-American military men and women seized their dignity through barracks culture and community politics during and after World War II. Drawing on oral testimony, unpublished correspondence, archival records, memoirs, and diaries, Robert F. Jefferson explores …
Officer, Nurse, Woman
The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War
Häftad, 2011
368 kr
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"'I never got a chance to be a girl,' Kate O'Hare Palmer lamented, thirty-four years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Although proud of having served, she felt that the war she never understood had robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly. As depicted in a …
Race and War in France
Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914–1918
Häftad, 2013
485 kr
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During the First World War, the French army deployed more than 500,000 colonial subjects to European battlefields. The struggle against a common enemy associated these soldiers with the French nation, but racial and cultural differences left them on the outside. This study investigates French …
Hodges' Scout
A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War
Av Len Travers
Häftad, 2019
368 kr
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A gritty look at the French and Indian War through the lens of the bloody skirmish of Hodges' Scout, the heretofore untold story of a lost patrol.In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper reaches of the New …
Officer, Nurse, Woman
The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War
Inbunden, 2010
551 kr
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"'I never got a chance to be a girl,' Kate O'Hare Palmer lamented, thirty-four years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Although proud of having served, she felt that the war she never understood had robbed her of her innocence and forced her to grow up too quickly. As depicted in a …
Hodges' Scout
A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War
Av Len Travers
Inbunden, 2016
269 kr
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In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper reaches of the New York colony. Caught in a devastating ambush by French and native warriors, only a handful of colonials made it back alive. Toward the end of the …
