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Author(s):	Sanders Marble

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0823239772
Pages:	372	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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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, 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 Andr 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),

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