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This Book Places The Body At The Centre Of Critical Thinking About War, Giving Embodiment And Bodily Issues An Analytic Recognition They Have Often Been Denied In The Annuals And Ontology Of Conventional War Scholarship--page [1]. War And The Body / Kevin Mcsorley -- Preparing And Resisting The War Body: Training In The British Army / Emma Newlands -- Steeling The Body For War In Austrofascist Education / Tamara Ehs -- Too Fat To Fight? Obesity, Bio-politics And The Militarisation Of Children's Bodies / Joseph Burridge And Kevin Mcsorley -- Military Chic: Fashioning Civilian Bodies For War / Jane Tynan -- On Patrol: The Embodied Phenomenology Of Infantry / John Hockey -- 'switching On' For Cash: The Private Militarised Security Contractor As Geo-corporeal Actor / Paul Higate -- Affect, Agency, And Responsibility: The Act Of Killing In The Age Of Cyborgs / John Protevi -- Grammars Of Violence, Modes Of Embodiment And Frontiers Of The Subject / Kevin Mcdonald -- Soldiers' Bodies And The Contemporary British Military Memoir / Rachel Woodward And K. Neil Jenkings -- An Unbroken Man Despite Losing An Arm: Corporeal Reconstruction And Embodied Difference: Prosthetics In Western Germany After The Second World War (c. 1945-1960) / Elsbeth Bösl -- War-wounds: Disability, Memory And Narratives Of War In A Lebanese Disability Rehabilitation Hospital / Julie M. Hartley -- Memorialising The Veteran Body: New Zealand Nuclear Test Veterans And The Search For Military Citizenship / Catherine Trundle -- The War Dead And The Body Politic: Rendering The Dead Soldier's Body In The New Global (dis)order / Michael S. Drake -- Bodies, Masculinities And Complex Inheritances / Victor Seidler -- Rethinking War And The Body / Kevin Mcsorley. Edited By Kevin Mcsorley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.