\ Booknewsnot seen. Translated from the best selling 1978 German edition. Delves for the emotional core of fascism as it is revealed in the novels and memoirs of the Freikorps, mercenary bands that fought Germany's border disputes and put down worker revolts between the wars. Finds in the mythic imagination a repudiation of the male body, and of femininity, that becomes a psychic compulsion associating masculinity with hardness, self-denial, and destruction. Volume one, Women, floods, bodies, history, published in English in 1987, deals with the image of women in fascist myth. A classic work. Clothbound edition $45.00 Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.com\ \