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-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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
-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.
