Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line

Name: Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806137667
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Conscientious Objectors During World War II

Szerző: Mark Matthews, George S. McGovern

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Oklahoma Press

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During the Vietnam era, conscientious objectors received both sympathy and admiration from many Amer...

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Szerző

Mark Matthews, George S. McGovern

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2006

oldal

336

EAN

9780806137667

ISBN

0806137665

Enbook ID

11525076

Kiadó

University of Oklahoma Press

Súly

524

Méretek

140 x 216 x 23

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During the Vietnam era, conscientious objectors received both sympathy and admiration from many Americans. It was not so during World War II. The pacifists who chose to sit out that war--some 72,000 men--were publicly derided as "yellowbellies" or extreme cowards. After all, why would anyone refuse to fight against fascism in "the good war"? This book tells the story of one important group of World War II conscientious objectors: the men who volunteered for Civilian Public Service as U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers. Based in Missoula, Montana, the experimental smoke-jumping program began in 1939, but before the project could expand, the war effort drained available manpower. In 1942, the Civilian Public Service volunteers stepped in. Smoke jumping soon became the Forest Service's first line of defense against wildfires in the West. Drawing on extensive interviews with World War II conscientious objectors and original documents from the period, Matthews vividly recreates the individual stories of Civilian Public Service smoke jumpers. He also assesses their collective contribution to the development of western wildfire management. By revealing an unknown dimension of American pacifism,

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