Books by George Q. Flynn

Flynn chronicles the draft's military and strategic successes and failures in America's mid-century wars. He shows how major institutions and lobbies representing science, education, and various professions and religions influenced it and how the selective character of the draft eventually made the system inequitable and helped cause its downfall.

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?Balanced research, clear narration, and fair-minded handling of a delicate subject have gone into this compact, yet broad analysis. From the standpoint of President Roosevelt's political survival and that of his country, the winning over of American Catholics to an interventionist foreign policy was a stark necessity since Catholics were mainly Democrats and isolationist in the 1930s....Flynn trods the devious path of religious-diplomatic history carefully while passing assessments on institutions and leaders....The bibliography, but more especially the footnotes, will aid fellow researchers in the field.?-Choice

?A clearly written and thoroughly researched scholarly effort on what may seem to be a narrowly specialized aspect of the Second World War. But Flynn is well aware-- and a reader quickly learns--that the subject of manpower mobilization affords not simply an instructive view of backstairs politics in the Roosevelt administration, but a confrontation with some of the most fundamental and difficult questions for a democratic nation.... Highly recommended for all college and university libraries.?-Choice

When the nature of warfare made an all-volunteer army inadequate, the major Western democracies confronted the dilemma of involuntary military service in a free society. This book examines how France, Britain and the US solved the problem and why some solutions were more lasting than others.