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Book Synopsis-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.
Trade ReviewFighting Hoosiers brings the reader into the worlds of ordinary citizens who suddenly found themselves fighting far from home under difficult conditions.
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Fighting Hoosiers brings the reader into the worlds of ordinary citizens who suddenly found themselves fighting far from home under difficult conditions. An amazing element of Fighting Hoosiers is not only the completeness of the diaries researched but the memories, such as that of Kenneth Baker of Rochester, Indiana, who, sixty-six years after serving in two world wars, was able to place his experiences on a yellow notepad from memory, which eventually found its way into print for posterity. This is a story of ordinary citizens making extraordinary contributions and a lasting impact on themselves, the lives of their families, and the country they loved both during the war and decades after.
-- Terry Wettig - AF Air University Global College * H-Net (War) *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / 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
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