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.
Achilles in Vietnam
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).
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.
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain - 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 Cold Mountain write by Charles Frazier. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Cold Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
An American Odysseus
An American Odysseus - 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 An American Odysseus write by Charles Chapman. This book was released on 2018-10-15. An American Odysseus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lot of years have passed since the events discussed in this book took place. I have had to rely mostly on memory since all letters and writings have long since vanished. I never intended to write a book. I instead sought to leave a journal for my children, my grandchildren, and great-grandchildren as to my experiences in my youth and in a very unpopular war. This story revolves around a young man's torturous journey through childhood into the hell of war, and the obstacles to be overcome to bring himself to the journey's end long yearned for.
