Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
⚡Book Author : Jonathan Shay
⚡Page : 272 pages
⚡Published October 1st 1995 by Scribner (first published 1994)
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character - In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam vets.
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