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The YMCA at War - Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars (Paperback)
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The YMCA at War - Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars (Paperback)
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The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its
athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins
in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from
the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that
uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon
the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century,
and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War:
Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars is the first
collection of scholarship to examine the YMCA's efforts during the
World Wars of the twentieth century, which proved to be a bastion
of support to soldiers and civilians around the world. The YMCA
deployed hundreds of thousands of its much-vaunted secretaries to
support suffering civilians and ease soldiers' wartime hardships.
Joining forces with governments, other civic organizations, and
individuals, the Y could be either an indispensable auxiliary or an
arms-length nuisance. In all cases, its support had a significant
byproduct: for every person it befriended, the Y invariably made an
enemy with an opposing party, its patrons, its sponsor, or at
times, all three. The YMCA at War offers fresh, timely research in
an international and comparative perspective from scholars around
the world that evaluates this conflict and collaboration during the
World Wars.
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