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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153758503321

Autore

Büchl Marco Robert

Titolo

Dogface soldiers : U.S. infantry riflemen and the war against Hitler's Wehrmacht in the Mediterranean and Northwestern Europe / / by Marco Büchl ; translation, Schnellübersetzer GmbH (J. Buschman)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wien, Austria : , : Böhlau Verlag, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

900

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published with support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Grant Number: Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - PUB 320.

Translation of: Dogface Soldiers : die Frontsoldaten der US-Infanterie und der Krieg gegen Hitlers Wehrmacht im Mittelmeerraum und in Nordwesteuropa.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The American way of war: socio-cultural and mass psychological dualisms between the U.S. and its military forces -- 3. Between the wars: demobilization, isolationism and reactions to the crisis in Europe -- 4. From defensive to offensive planning -- 5. The right way, the wrong way. the Army way -- 6. Digression: African Americans in the army of the United States -- 7. The American occupation of Great Britain -- 8. Dogface soldiers -- 9. Up front … with Mauldin -- 10. The greatest generation?.

Sommario/riassunto

Dogface Soldiers is an interdisciplinary and image centered cultural history of the Army of the United States‘ infantry riflemen in the Mediterranean- and European Theaters of Operations of World War II. Its methods transcend the boundaries of conventional historiography and make use of Clifford Geertz’s anthropological method of thick description as well as military used comprehensive analysis methods.



Dogface Soldiers ist eine interdisziplinäre und bildbasierte Kulturgeschichte US-amerikanischer Infanterieschützen des europäischen Zweiten Weltkriegs. Methodisch werden konventionelle Grenzen der Histriogarpahie überschritten und Anleihen bei Clifford Geertz und seiner anthropologischen "Thick Description", sowie bei comprehensive analysis-Modellen militärisch-operativer Provenienz genommen.