Ungefähr eine Million Frauen kämpften von 1941 bis 1945 Seite an Seite mit über 30 Millionen Männern in der Roten Armee gegen die deutschen Truppen. In der Etappe wie auch in Frontpositionen leisteten sie als Sowjetbürgerinnen ihren Dienst an der Waffe und waren ebenso wie die M…
"This book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists on the Western Front. Excerpts from memoirs are supplemented by descriptions of personalities, places, battles and even equipment and weapons, thus placing these generally forgotten American adventurers into the …
"State armies around the world commemorate their fallen soldiers through ceremonies of remembrance and ritual memory-making. But these "spectacles of mourning" are careful manipulations of affect, gendered and structured by the military to both acknowledge lives lost and reinfor…
"In the pursuit of the modern, the armed forces served as instrument, model, and metaphor for national progress. I examine in this book how the military experience, as representative of the process, failed or fulfilled aspects of the broad national transition towards hegemony an…
"In the pursuit of the modern, the armed forces served as instrument, model, and metaphor for national progress. I examine in this book how the military experience, as representative of the process, failed or fulfilled aspects of the broad national transition towards hegemony an…
