Fighting Hoosiers Indiana in Two World Wars

Drawn from the rich holdings of theIndiana 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 Hoosiersoffers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.