Fallen elites [electronic resource] : the military other in post-unification Germany / Andrew Bickford.
Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.Description: xviii, 268 pISBN:- 9780804773959 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804773966 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780804777162 (e-book)
- 355.10943/109049 22
- UB415.G3 B53 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The military imaginary : soldiers, myths, and states -- Emotions, generations, and death cults : militarization and the creation of socialist military personalities -- Coming of age in the NVA : the master narratives of militarization -- The writing on the wall : the NVA surrenders -- A war of signs, images, and memories : German militaries in the Cold War and unification -- "Unification has ruined my life" : the political economy of the military other -- As Germans among Germans : life in the Kameradschaft -- "We're the Jews of the new Germany" : heroic victimhood, fallen elites, and the slipperiness of history and memory -- Death and allegiance : toward an anthropology of soldiering.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.