Civilians into soldiers is an examination of British Army life during the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of official records and servicemen's personal testimonies it explores the ways in which male civilians were turned into soldiers through the techniques by which they were inducted into military culture. Newlands argues that their bodies were central to this process. Using strict physical regimes, the military authorities sorted men into bodily types that reflected their cultural assumptions and sought to transform them into figures that they imagined to be ideal. However, soldiers'...