Author: United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Final report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the operations of the selective service system to July 15, 1919
Author: United States. Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Final Report of the Provest Marshall General to the Secretary of War on the Operations of the Selective Service Systems
Author: United States. Provost Marshall Gereral's Office. War Department
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Review of the Administration and Operation of the Selective Service System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1844
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Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1844
Book Description
Final Report of the Provost Marshal General to the Secretary of War on the Operations of the Selective Service System to July 15, 1919
Author: United States. Provost Marshal General's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
American Selective Service
Author: United States. Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Special Monograph
Author: United States. Selective Service System
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Backgrounds of Selective Service: Military obligation: the American tradition, a compilation of the enactments of compulsion from the earliest settlements of the original thirteen colonies in 1607 though the Articles of Confederation, 1789 [prepared and compiled by A. Vollmer]. 14 v
Author: United States. Selective Service System
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Fever of War
Author: Carol R Byerly
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.