ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, first Earl Roberts.

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Fallacies and Facts. An Answer to "Compulsory Service". First edition, second impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Sclater, from Roberts, 5/4/11". This work offers a lively rebuttal to General Sir Ian Hamilton's Compulsory Service (1910), which argued against universal military training for young men. The recipient was General Sir Henry Sclater, a member of the Army Council from 1914 to 1916.The second impression appeared one month after the first.

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