| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933–1945. By Kiran Klaus Patel. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 446 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-83416-3.)
Currently, transnational history as a new approach in historical scholarship is lively debated. The quest to broaden historians' inquiries beyond the traditional confines of the nation-state calls for careful comparisons and sensitive perspectives on processes of transfer between individual players in certain historical contexts. While programmatic articles and conference papers are already numerous, thoroughly conducted book-length research is still rare. Kiran Klaus Patel's Soldiers of Labor provides a fine example of this type of research and should be of great interest to anyone working in that field.	1
The book, originally published in German in 2003, won distinguished awards. This English-language edition was made possible with the support of the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, D.C., and provides a slightly updated translation of the original volume. Given that foreign-language publications, even when they deal with important topics of American, international, or transnational history, are not usually well received among American scholars, the efforts of both the author and the ghi should be appreciated.	. . .

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