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Pages: 369
Authors: Sanders Marble
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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
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Authors: Sanders Marble
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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
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Authors: Sanders Marble
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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
Physical Control, Transformation and Damage in the First World War
Language: en
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Authors: Simon Harold Walker
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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From enlistment in 1914 to the end of service in 1918, British men's bodies were constructed, conditioned, and controlled in the pursuit of allied victory. Phys
Instrument of War
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Dennis Showalter
Categories: History
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Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter sur