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.
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