Comrades in Arms: Military Masculinities in East German Culture

by Tom Smith and Tom Smith

Book Overview

Without question, the East German National People's Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800736371
• ISBN13: 9781800736375
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"