"Examines how the British Empire and Commonwealth mobilized manpower for the armed services, agriculture, and industry during the two world wars and how they cared for veterans, both able-bodied and disabled, when the fighting was over"-- Provided by publisher.

The government that could not say no and Australia's military effort, 1914-1918 /Jean Bou -- Irish identities in the British army during the First World War / Richard S. Grayson -- Conserving British manpower during and after the First World War / Jessica Meyer -- The Canadian garrison artillery goes to war, 1914-1918 / Roger Sarty -- "Returning home to fight" : Bristolians in the dominion armies, 1914-1918 / Kent Fedorowich and Charles Booth -- Martial races and recruitment in the Indian army during two world wars / Kaushik Roy -- Manpower, training and the battlefield leadership of British army officers in the era of the two world wars / Gary Sheffield -- Legitimacy, consent, and the mobilization of the British and Commonwealth armies during the Second World War / Jonathan Fennell -- "Enemy aliens" and the formation of Australia's 8th employment company as a response to the Japanese threat in 1942 / Paul R. Bartrop -- The body and becoming a soldier in Britain during the Second World War / Emma Newlands -- Canada and the mobilization of manpower during the Second World War / Daniel Byers -- South African manpower and the Second World War / Ian van der Waag -- Manpower mobilization and rehabilitation in New Zealand's Second World War / Ian McGibbon -- Caring for British commonwealth soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War / Meghan Fitzpatrick.