Conscription, Family, and the Modern State

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Conscription, Family, and the Modern State is written by Dorit Geva and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107024986 (ISBN 10) and 9781107024984 (ISBN 13).

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.