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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674024028

ISBN-139780674024021

eBay Product ID (ePID)57151244

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Book TitleRegulars : the American Army, 1898-1941

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicMilitary / Veterans, Military / World War I, Military / United States

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorEdward M. Coffman

FormatPerfect

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight27.2 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width7.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsCoffman's The Regulars provides the definitive collective biography of the officers and men of the Regular Army from 1898 to 1941. Coffman has written another classic., Coffman has written a social history of the American Army that is unparalleled. No one else has done, or probably could do, anything like it as a portrayal of Army life from inside., This is an exceptionally gracefully written, scrupulously researched, professionally objective, endlessly interesting administrative and social history of a crucial 40 years for the U.S. Army., The officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Army were not typical of their countrymen. They moved frequently, often to unlikely places. They lived under comprehensive regulation, where a playground fight or a spouses' quarrel could shape an entire career. And they accepted an ethic of duty and responsibility in many ways anomalous in a country built on individual freedoms and rights...If WWII saw the emergence of America's 'greatest generation,' its framework was provided by Coffman's regulars, wonderfully described here., [An] exceptionally gracefully written, scrupulously researched, professionally objective, endlessly interesting administrative and social history of a crucial 40 years. --Alan Gropman, Good histories of military organizations frequently involve extensive investigation of military society and military culture. The methodologies applied by social and cultural historians to other groups can be applied effectively to the military--provided that the historian has made the effort to understand the military's idiosyncrasies. Edward M. Coffman's "The Regulars," an account of the transformation of the US army between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War, demonstrates that factors such as social support for the military and the transition from an anti-intellectual culture to one that prized education helped turn a small, poorly organized army into a much larger and more competent force., ÝAn¨ exceptionally gracefully written, scrupulously researched, professionally objective, endlessly interesting administrative and social history of a crucial 40 years. --Alan Gropman, The officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Army were not typical of their countrymen. They moved frequently, often to unlikely places. They lived under comprehensive regulation, where a playground fight or a spouses' quarrel could shape an entire career. And they accepted an ethic of duty and responsibility in many ways anomalous in a country built on individual freedoms and rights...If WWII saw the emergence of America's 'greatest generation, ' its framework was provided by Coffman's regulars, wonderfully described here., Edward Coffman, in The Regulars , has done a masterful job of portraying the Army as it developed between The Spanish-American War and the Second World War. Easy reading and thoroughly researched, it is a book that I found impossible to set down. I was astonished to realize how little I actually knew about the society I grew up in., A splendid evocation of the soldiers who endured long years of austerity, and of the culture that sustained them as they emerged to create and lead to glory the massed armies of World War II. A marvelous family album of the Regular Army during the years it was evolving into leadership of one of the world's greatest fighting forces., This is a marvelous book! Coffman has provided a witty, insightful, and thoroughly informative social history of the U.S. Army's evolution from frontier constabulary to global power. Coffman's approach is holistic, covering the officer corps and enlisted personnel, wives and children, and civil-military relations. His coverage of the Army's long service as protector of America's empire is path -breaking. His extensive research makes this work a model for military and social historians. Coffman is one of the best writers in military history, and he is at the top of his form. A book to be savored and revisited., The second volume of Coffman's magisterial social history of the U.S. Army covers the period from the Spanish-American War to Pearl Harbor...[His] clear narrative does full justice to the army's invaluable school system, the African American units, the transpacific troop transports, and other sometimes ignored themes...Coffman's now two-volume work in turn must be reckoned the outstanding social history of the U.S. Army., A work of extraordinary scholarship and insight, written with clarity and wit. Edward Coffman's history of the U.S. Army from the Spanish-American War to the beginning of World War II is the history of an American coming-of-age. Full of splendid character studies, The Regulars is a marvelous story, marvelously told.

Dewey Decimal355/.00973

Table Of ContentCONTENTS Prologue 1. The Army Begins a New Era 2. The Colonial Army 3. Life and Training in the Philippines 4. Enlisted Men in the New Army 5. The Managerial Revolution 6. The War to End All Wars 7. The Army in Limbo 8. Soldiering in the 1920s and 1930s 9. The Army in Pacific Outposts, 1919 - 1940 10. Mobilizing for War Postscript Essay on Sources and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Index

SynopsisIn 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman tells how that critical transformation was accomplished. Coffman has spent years immersed in the official records, personal papers, memoirs, and biographies of regular army men, including such famous leaders as George Marshall, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur. He weaves their stories, and those of others he has interviewed, into the story of an army which grew from a small community of posts in China and the Philippines to a highly effective mechanized ground and air force. During these years, the U.S. Army conquered and controlled a colonial empire, military staff lived in exotic locales with their families, and soldiers engaged in combat in Cuba and the Pacific. In the twentieth century, the United States entered into alliances to fight the German army in World War I, and then again to meet the challenge of the Axis Powers in World War II. Coffman explains how a managerial revolution in the early 1900s provided the organizational framework and educational foundation for change, and how the combination of inspired leadership, technological advances, and a supportive society made it successful. In a stirring account of all aspects of garrison life, including race relations, we meet the men and women who helped reconfigure America's frontier army into a modern global force., In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers; 43 years later, it was a large modern army ready to wage war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this social history of America's standing army, a military historian tells how that transformation was accomplished.

LC Classification NumberUA25.C6223 2007