Comrades in Arms

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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1. autor: Smith, Tom
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Wydane: Berghahn Books 2021
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