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Student Deferment in Selective Service
University of Minnesota Press 1952; US$ 60.00Student Deferment in Selective Service was first published in 1952. What dies "student deferment" mean? Is is an exemption or a postponement of military service? Why did our government adopt the policy? How dies it operate? How does it affect national security? Does it result in special privilege? Is deferment justified regardless of what... more...
Bausoldaten in der DDR
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 38.03Hauptbeschreibung Mit diesem Buch legen die Autoren eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Geschichte der Bausoldaten in der DDR von 1964 bis 1990 vor. Erstmals werden die Hintergründe der Bausoldatenregelung, die Dimensionen des Ersatzdienstes sowie das Verhalten der offiziellen Stellen gegenüber Bausoldaten umfassend dargestellt. Zu den etwa 15 000 jungen... more...
Conscientious Objection
Zed Books 2009; US$ 35.95This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge to examine the pratice of conscientious objection: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of compulsory military service and militarization; feminist, LGBT and queer analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of patriarchy,... more...
British Military Service Tribunals, 1916-18
Manchester University Press 2011; US$ 95.00Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist old duffers. To most of the men who came before... more...
The New Conscientious Objection
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 33.99This study examines the changing motives and patterns of conscientious objection as well as state policies toward objectors in the Western world. more...
Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 178.00This book examines the creation of ?national armies? through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period. The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge. In order to ensure that the army would never become... more...
Mandatory Military Service
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 32.95Highlights the arguments for and against the use of the draft. more...
From Soldier to Civvy
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00National Service had a powerful immediate effect on the men who served in the SADF, immersing them in an unfamiliar military world. But its impact reached beyond them - to the families and loved ones at home - and it has left its mark decades after the conscripts re-entered civvy street. From Soldier to Civvy explores National Service from a number... more...
Troepie: From Call-Up to Camps
Random House Struik 2010; US$ 10.00For over half a million white South African males conscripted before 1994, National Service was a compulsory, demanding and intense experience that had a powerful impact on them. This book is a compilation of recollections by more than forty former conscripts about their time in the South African Defence Force. The chapters take you through the sequence... more...
Brasso, Blanco and Bull
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 11.65When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over the next two years in service. Brasso, Blanco & Bull is the hilarious account of life in National Service, where 23339788 Thorne faced the horrors of basic training, the boredom of the drill yard as well... more...









