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Burton, Antionette M., ed. The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader

and individuals made sense of their relationship with the GDR regime through a reimagining of their own largely pre-1945 experiences. Part 2, perhaps the most intriguing of the three main sections, explores broad questions related to public health and food in the GDR. These four essays track the many ways that East Germans adapted their own lifestyles and daily routines to the policies and limitations of the regime. Comparative essays focused on heart disease or campaigns against tuberculosis in a broader German-German or European context help us see more clearly how East Germany was similar to and different from neighboring countries in attitudes toward disease treatment and prevention. The final two essays in this section shed important new light on public discourse concerning dieting, nutrition, and the concept of luxury dining in the GDR, a country that was very much fixated on food and drink as evidence of stability and relative prosperity. Part 3 takes readers into the realm of disciplinary practices and friend-foe conceptualizations that helped situate citizens within a larger network of state power. Essays comparing working-class behavior in the Third Reich and East Germany, the image of Israel, the role of humiliation as a weapon of party discipline, and everyday life and football all offer interesting viewpoints on how individual East Germans lived their lives and understood the world around them from within the political and social structures of the GDR. In sum, this book is an excellent example of the effectiveness of an edited collection’s ability to convey a broad array of subjects that help reinforce the central theoretical premises of the work. Coeditors Andrew Port and Mary Fulbrook, both prominent and established scholars of East German history, have made excellent choices in almost all of the essays and displayed a clear vision of the major debates or historiographical controversies to which this collection could best contribute. As such, this collection is a model for future authors to follow and is highly recommended for both academic and interested general audiences alike.