Comrades in Arms Military Masculinities in East German Culture

Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution, not simply in terms of its overwhelmingly male makeup but in the traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage that it sought to exemplify. Nonetheless, as this innovative study of the...

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Main Author: Smith, Tom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berghahn Books 2020
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