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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>-Carefully selected collection of articles from the <i>Indiana Magazine of History</i>, that details ordinary Hoosiers' involvement in the two world wars.</p><p>Focuses on the personal stories of these brave men and women, and features their diaries, letters and memiors as source material.</p><p>-Trade crossover that should appeal to general history readers and scholars alike.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Dawn Bakken is Associate Editor of the <i>Indiana Magazine of History</i>, a scholarly journal of state and midwestern history. She is the author of <i>On This Day in Indianapolis.</i></p>

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