Bickford, Andrew,  1966- <br/><br/>
Fallen elites :  the military other in post-unification Germany / 
Andrew Bickford. 
 - Stanford, California :  Stanford University Press,  [2011], p3s2011. 
 - xviii, 268 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804773959 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780804773966 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010043611 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee --Officers--Attitudes.<br/>Germany (East). Nationale Volksarmee --Officers--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Retired military personnel--Attitudes.--Germany<br/>Retired military personnel--Social conditions.--Germany<br/>Personal militar retirado--Actitudes.--Alemania<br/>Personal militar retirado--Condiciones sociales.--Alemania<br/>Primera Jornada de Catalogacion
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UB 415.42  / B583f 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>355.10943