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Fight like a man? Masculinity in WW2

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The Importance of Metal Enclosure in War

I wanted to write that chapter on metal in the book because I've fascinated by the idea of metal is this material that encases the body or various bodies in a tank or a bomber or a ship. And I think I think that very much has a has a has obscured the men. They're not individuals fighting on the battlefield so much a lot of the time they are, we can see them in these machines. That's why I wanted to write about Henry Danton who was discharged from the army and became a ballet dancer during the war. His story really was the thing that opened the book up because he'd gone to private school funded by the military for orphans of children of deceased servic

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