Fighting Hoosiers

<p><i>Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars</i> 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. <br /><br />Drawn from the rich holdings of the <i>Indiana Magazine of History</i> 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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. <i>Fighting Hoosiers</i> offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.</p>