I’ve compiled a rather extensive tentative bibliography for an upcoming project I’m going to be working on. Previous contemporary examinations of the casualty replacement system used by the U.S. Army during World War II have been brief, only noting in passing, if at all, the role of Selective Service and the near-continous series of administrative failures and palliative band-aids in the United States that were direct causes of the system sputtering in overseas theaters (where the majority of the attention has been focused) in the first place.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

“Army Is Shifting 80,000.” New York Times, December 15, 1944.

“Army Orders 40,000 Draft Rise In January, February as a Need.” New York Times, December 19, 1944.

“Army Sends Youths Under 19 Into Battle As Its Replacement Needs Become Urgent.” New York Times, December 8, 1944.

“Army Slashes College Training, Shifts 110,000 Men to Line Duty.” New York Times, February 18, 1944.

“Army’s Needs Mount: German Drive Aggravates Manpower and Supply Problems, Some Already Serious.” New York Times, December 26, 1944.

“Backs Ban To Jan. 1 In Draft Of Fathers.” New York Times, July 3, 1943.

Baldwin, Hanson W. “Replacement Plan Faulty.” New York Times, March 15, 1945.

Balkoski, Joseph. Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2005.

Balkoski, Joseph. From Beachhead to Brittany: The 29th Infantry Division at Brest, August-September 1944. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2008.

Balkoski, Joseph. From Brittany to the Reich: The 29th Infantry Division in Germany, September-November 1944. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2012.

“Bill Seeks To Ban Draft Of Fathers.” New York Times, August 11, 1943.

“Bill Sped to Stop Fathers’ Draft, Put Three Other Groups Ahead.” New York Times, February 5, 1943.

Blumenson, Martin. United States Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations, Breakout and Pursuit. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History, 1961.

Blumenson, Martin, Robert W. Coakley, Stetson Conn, Byron Fairchild, Richard M. Leighton, Charles V. P. von Luttichau, Charles B. MacDonald et al. Command Decisions, Edited by Kent Roberts Greenfield. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History, 1987.

Bracker, Milton. “5th Army Gets Non-Combat Men For Infantry In Conversion Plan.” New York Times, December 16, 1944.

Bradley, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1951.

Brown, John S. Draftee Division: The 88th Infantry Division in World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

Cibula, Alvin M. The Army Ground Forces: The Antiaircraft Command and Center, Study No. 26. Washington: Historical Section, Army Ground Forces, 1946.

Clifford, J. Gary, and Samuel R. Spencer, Jr. The First Peacetime Draft. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986.

Cole, Hugh M. United States Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations, The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History, 1950.

Cole, Hugh M. United States Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations, The Lorraine Campaign. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History, 1965.

Conn, Stetson, and Byron Fairchild. United States Army in World War II, The Western Hemisphere: The Framework of Hemisphere Defense. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History, 1960.

Craven, Wesley F., and James L. Cate, ed. The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume VI: Men and Planes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Daniel, Clifton. “Lear To Speed Up Infantry Training” New York Times, January 28, 1945.

Dargusch, Carlton S., Louis H. Renfrow, John D. Langston, Benjamin R. Howell, Robert E. Coons, Ernest B. Erickson, Joseph D. Noell, Jr., S. Glenn Parker, Neal M. Wherry, Kenneth H. McGill, Elizabeth Oliver, Walter Hines, Winifred White. Problems of Selective Service: Special Monograph No. 16, Volume I. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952.

“Delay in Drafting Fathers.” New York Times, June 20, 1943.

Dominique, Dean J. "The Attack Will Go On: The 317th Infantry Regiment in World War II” Master’s thesis, Louisiana State University, 2003.

Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

“Draft Of Fathers Deferred To Oct. 1.” New York Times, June 29, 1943.

“Draft Of Fathers Ordered Where Quotas Lag.” New York Times, August 3, 1943.

“Drafting Fathers Seen As Undecided.” New York Times, September 18, 1942.

Dunham, Emory D. The Army Ground Forces: The Tank Destroyer History, Study No. 29. Washington: Army Ground Forces Historical Section, 1946.

“Family-Men Draft Coming in 2 Months.” New York Times, February 12, 1943.

“Fathers’ Draft Still Months Off; 9,300,000 Men, Women in Forces.” New York Times, July 16, 1943.

“Fathers Face Call to Army Next Year, Gen. Hershey Says.” New York Times, September 14, 1942.

Flynn, George Q. The Draft, 1940-1973. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Fussell, Paul. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Gabel, Christopher R. Seek, Strike, and Destroy: U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War II. Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press, 1985.

Gantter, Raymond C. Roll Me Over: An Infantryman’s World War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

General Board, United States Forces European Theater, APO 408. Reinforcement System and Reinforcement Procedures in the European Theater of Operations.

Geva, Dorit. Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Greenfield, Kent Roberts, and Robert R. Palmer. The Army Ground Forces: Origins of the Army Ground Forces: General Headquarters, United States Army, 1940-1942, Study No. 1. Washington: Historical Section, Army Ground Forces, 1946.

Greenfield, Kent Roberts, Robert R. Palmer, Bell I. Wiley. United States Army in World War II, The Army Ground Forces: The Organization of Ground Combat Troops. Washington: United States Army Center of Military History, 1947.

Hale, Preston W., ed. Age in the Selective Service Process: Special Monograph No. 9. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1946.

Handel, William S., Mapheus Smith, William A. DeHart. Dependency Deferment: Special Monograph No. 8. Edited by Mapheus Smith. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1947.

Hershey, Lewis B. Selective Service in Peacetime: First Report of the Director of Selective Service 1940-41. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1942.

Hershey, Lewis B. Selective Service in Wartime: Second Report of the Director of Selective Service 1941-42. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943.

Hershey, Lewis B. Selective Service as the Tide of War Turns: The 3rd Report of the Director of Selective Service 1943-1944. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1945.

Hershey, Lewis B. Selective Service and Victory: The 4th Report of the Director of Selective Service 1944-1945 With A Supplement For 1947-1948. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948.

Keast, William R. The Army Ground Forces: The Provision of Enlisted Replacements, Study No. 7. Washington: Historical Section, Army Ground Forces, 1946.

Keast, William R. The Army Ground Forces: Major Developments in the Training of Enlisted Replacements, Study No. 32. Washington: Historical Section, Army Ground Forces, 1946.

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I remember reading about a forthcoming book dealing with the development of the concept of Europe. It was supposed to be a response to Larry Wolff's book Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment and I am pretty sure was an anthology from different authors, but I cannot for the life of me remember it's name. I'm fairly sure it is out now. Does anyone remember this book?

Are there any good books on Ancient/Imperial China? I've been trying to get into Chinese history, and I tried one of the books recommended in the sidebar ("The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han" by Mark Lewis) and it wasn't a very good introductory book. It made a lot of assumptions about what the reader already knew about early China, and focused mainly on things like daily life and religious beliefs, in a non-linear format.

It'd be a great companion book to someone who's already familiar with the history, but that's not me. I'm basically looking for an equivalent to the Oxford History of the US-style for Chinese history books. Does anything like that exist?

r/AskHistorians book list is sorely lacking in the history of ideas department. In fact it's essentially nonexistent, with the exception of a few books on science. Is that because there are no experts on this field here?

I was wondering if anyone knew of any good books on Salisbury (now Harare), Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), or Algiers in their respective late colonial periods. I've heard them described as containing wide leafy promenades and stunning neoclassical architecture (predominately in the white sections of the city) and I've been interested in learning more. Thanks!

Edit: I've seen this thread on Salisbury especially by /u/profrhodes which is fantastic but I was really hoping for books

Suggest me books on Catholicism and Protestanism and what happened in Ireland(The troubles)

This week, my copy of Christopher Dowd's The Irish and the Origins of American Popular Culture arrived, which I've been looking forward to. Comes the point where you can tell a lot about the quality of a book just by flipping to its bibliography, and it looks like Dowd has done a fair bit of work on the subject, so I'm curious to see how he addresses and develops it, especially with regards to one of my personal favorite pulp author, Robert E. Howard.