2 A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815-1914

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Federal Manpower Needs and the U.S. Army's Veteran Reserve Corps 5
5. 2 A Grand Illusion? German Reserves, 1815-1914 28
6. 3 Manifestly Inferior? French Reserves, 1871-1914 54
7. 4 Each One a Pocket Hercules: The Bantam Experiment and the Case of the Thirty-fifth Division 79
8. 5 Scraping the Barrel: African American Troops and World War I 105
9. 6 Below the Bar: The U.S. Army and Limited Service Manpower 132
10. 7 Soviet Use of Substandard Manpower in the Red Army, 1941-1945 151
11. 8 German Bodenstandig Divisions 179
12. 9 Recruiting Volksdeutsche for the Waffen-SS: From Skimming the Cream to Scraping the Dregs 197
13. 10 The Ethnic Germans of the Waffen-SS in Combat: Dregs or Gems? 225
14. 11 Project 100,000 in the Vietnam War and Afterward 254
15. Conclusions 271
16. Notes 277
17. Contributors 349
18. Index 353