This series uses contemporary posters, images, and eyewitness accounts to examine how people experienced World War II away from the battlefield. It examines not only life on the home front but also what it was like to do military service or to live under enemy occupation, as well as the influence of propaganda and espionage on the course of the conflict. This book reveals the experience of fighting men and women away from the battlefield. It shows how they were recruited and trained, the support services that helped maintain their morale, and the medical services that kept them healthy enough to fight.