The Armed Horde 1793-1939 by Hoffman Nickerson

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1940. G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st Edition.

A Study of the Rise, Survival, and Decline of the Mass Army.

This book traces the origin, survival, culmination, and recent decline of the mass army recruited by universal, compulsory service which, with its corollaries of unlimited taxation and governmental control over the governed, has so evilly transformed warfare during the last hundred and fifty years. - Author's Preface.