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“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:

Graham, Devon E.

Abstract:

This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

. Mina Carson, and Dr. Daniel López-Cevallos, for your interest, encouragement, and your service