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Fallen elites : the military other in post-unification Germany / Andrew Bickford.
LIBRA UB415.G3 B53 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bickford, Andrew, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee--Officers--Attitudes.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee--Officers--Social conditions.
- Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee.
- Retired military personnel--Germany--Attitudes.
- Retired military personnel.
- Retired military personnel--Germany--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
- Germany.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773959
- 0804773955
- 9780804773966
- 0804773963
- OCLC:
- 670375351
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