Sport has a special significance for the military in general and in soldiers' everyday work lives and deployment situations. The role played by sport in the armed forces goes far beyond training the body. The book is the first full-length volume to address the connections between sport and the military in the twentieth century and the development of this interrelation in the German armed forces.

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Martin Elbe and Frank Reichherzer, Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam, Germany.