TY - BOOK AU - Bickford,Andrew ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Fallen elites: the military other in post-unification Germany AV - UB415.G3 B53 2011 U1 - 355.10943/109049 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Germany (East) KW - Nationale Volksarmee KW - Officers KW - Attitudes KW - Social conditions KW - Retired military personnel KW - Germany KW - History KW - Unification, 1990 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=692451 ER -