Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars - Softcover

Bakken, Dawn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253056845 ISBN 13: 9780253056849

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2021

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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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0253056845
• ISBN 13: 9780253056849
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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