The United States and the Second World War

The United States and the Second World War

Author: G. Kurt Piehler

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0823231208

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In this text, Piehler and Pash bring together a collection of essays offering an examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the US to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory and more


Conscription, Family, and the Modern State

Conscription, Family, and the Modern State

Author: Dorit Geva

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-12

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107024986

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This book compares how the American draft system and the French conscription system came to be. Although the French and American conscription systems were very different from one another, they had some surprising similarities, especially during the first half of the twentieth century. French and American leaders were concerned with military service's effects on men's family life, as conscription removed men from their homes, and soldiers could be injured or never return home. These concerns influenced how conscription was organized in each country.