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Democracy in a drum: Social relations on American submarines during the Second World War
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Democracy in a drum: Social relations on American submarines during the Second World War

M. Sturma
War & Society, Vol.24(2), pp.23-33
2005
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Describing life on a us submarine war patrol, one veteran submariner enlists the reader to, 'imagine yourself crammed inside a cold, clammy, inescapable steel cylinder with eighty-five smelly souls for a period of thirty-to-sixty days'. l For most people it is not an inviting image, and yet submarine service during the Second World War evokes a certain glamour. As a fighting unit submarine crews were seen as in some ways unique...

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