Fighting Hoosiers (eBook)

Indiana in Two World Wars

Dawn Bakken (Herausgeber)

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2021
200 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05686-3 (ISBN)

Infos

-Carefully selected collection of articles from the Indiana Magazine of History, that details ordinary Hoosiers' involvement in the two world wars.

Focuses on the personal stories of these brave men and women, and features their diaries, letters and memiors as source material.

-Trade crossover that should appeal to general history readers and scholars alike.

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Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars.

Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays—all of them focused on Hoosiers in the two world wars.

Readers will meet Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born immigrant who was the first American to fire a shot in World War I; Maude Essig, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in wartime France; Kenneth Baker, a soldier in the Army Signal Corps, who crawled across French fields (sometimes over and around dead bodies) to lay phone lines for military communications; and Bernard Rice, a combat medic who witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945.

Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. Fighting Hoosiers offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.

Autor

Dawn Bakken is Associate Editor of the Indiana Magazine of History, a scholarly journal of state and midwestern history. She is the author of On This Day in Indianapolis.

Inhalt

Introduction / Dawn E. Bakken
1. Pride, Patriotism, and the Press: The Evolving True Story of the First American Shot of World War I / Greta A. Fisher and Lauren E. Kuntzman
2. On Convoy Duty in World War I: The Diary of Hoosier Guy Connor / Edited by Jeffrey L. Patrick
3. A Hoosier Nurse in France: The World War I Diary of Maude Frances Essig / Alma S. Woolley
4. 'Oatmeal and Coffee': Memoirs of a Hoosier Soldier in World War I / Kenneth Gearhart Baker, edited and introduced by Robert H. Ferrell
5. Recollections of a World War II Combat Medic / Bernard L. Rice
6. A Hoosier Soldier in the British Isles / Lawrence B. McFaddin
7. 'A Fair Chance to Do My Part of Work': Black Women, War Work, and Rights Claims at the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant / Katherine Turk
Notes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w photos
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: WWI, WWII, War Memoirs, Women in War, Military History
• ISBN-10: 0-253-05686-1 / 0253056861
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-05686-3 / 9780253056863