Bøker av Carl M. Becker

A history of semiprofessional football clubs in Ohio - the Ironton Tanks, the Portsmouth Spartans, and others - and an intimate study of how the citizens and organizations that made up these cities worked to put themselves on the map.

The vast majority of soldiers and sailors fighting in World War II did not engage the enemy directly. Indeed, for every infantryman actually fighting, eight others were supporting him--driving trucks laden with food and ammunition, securing captured areas, servicing the machinery of war, and manning desks.