During World War II the British Army absorbed approximately three million new recruits, the majority of whom were conscripts. Drawn from all occupational groups and social classes, the military authorities were confronted with the task of moulding these civilians in uniform into an effective fighting force. This volume analyzes the impact of this process of integration on the army as a social institution. Exploring such aspects of the army's social organization as other rank selection, officer selection, officer promotion, officer-man relations, the soldier's working life, army welfare and army education, it assesses the ways in which the army changed in relation to its new intake, what the extent of any change that took place actually was, and how different the army of 1945 was from that of 1939.
- ISBN10 0719047412
- ISBN13 9780719047411
- Publish Date 17 August 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English