This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main e

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Why has the United States, unlike every other 20th-century world power, failed to settle on a durable system of military service? In this lucid book, Eliot Cohe

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Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award Finalist for the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire military situation.