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Record Nr.

UNISA996248338503316

Autore

Coffman Edward M

Titolo

The regulars : the American Army, 1898-1941 / / Edward M. Coffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-02962-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

355.009730904

Soggetti

Soldiers - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-500) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue 1. The Army Begins a New Era 2. The Colonial Army 3. Life and Training in the Philippines 4. Enlisted Men in the New Army 5. The Managerial Revolution 6. The War to End All Wars 7. The Army in Limbo 8. Soldiering in the 1920s and 1930s 9. The Army in Pacific Outposts, 1919-1940 10. Mobilizing for War Postscript Essay on Sources and Acknowledgments Notes Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. 43 years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. Coffman tells how that critical transformation was accomplished.