Achilles in Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Achilles in Vietnam write by Jonathan Shay. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Achilles in Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative 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. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).
Odysseus in America
Odysseus in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Odysseus in America write by Jonathan Shay. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Odysseus in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American military institutions, Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran's experience and one of the world's greatest classics. In Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay used the story of the Iliad as a prism through which to examine how ancient and modern wars have battered the psychology of the men who fight. Now he turns his attention to the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the real problems faced by combat veterans reentering civilian society. The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture: danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by the dead, obsession, vagrancy and homelessness. Supporting his reading with examples from his fifteen-year practice treating Vietnam veterans, Shay shows how Odysseus's mistrustfulness, his lies, and his constant need to conceal his thoughts and emotions foreshadow the experiences of many of today's veterans. He also explains how veterans recover and advocates changes to American military practice that will protect future servicemen and servicewomen while increasing their fighting power. Throughout, Homer strengthens our understanding of what a combat veteran must overcome to return to and flourish in civilian life, just as the heartbreaking stories of the veterans Shay treats give us a new understanding of one of the world's greatest classics.
Combat Trauma
Combat Trauma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Combat Trauma write by James D. Johnson. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Combat Trauma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides information on the long-term effects of combat trauma through the experiences of fifteen Vietnam veterans, describing how their combat trauma symptoms effect their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The War That Killed Achilles
The War That Killed Achilles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War That Killed Achilles write by Caroline Alexander. This book was released on 2009-10-15. The War That Killed Achilles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of Western civilization. As she did in The Endurance and The Bounty, New York Times bestselling author Caroline Alexander has taken apart a narrative we think we know and put it back together in a way that lets us see its true power. In the process, she reveals the intended theme of Homer's masterwork-the tragic lessons of war and its enduring devastation.
American Tragedy
American Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Tragedy write by David E. Kaiser. This book was released on 2000. American Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.
