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ACHILLES IN VIETNAM Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
by Shay, Jonathan
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0684813211
- ISBN 13
- 9780684813219
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster. Very Good+. 1994. Softcover. 0684813211 . Pages a bit tanned. ; 0.68 x 8.41 x 5.53 Inches; 272 pages; Shay works from an intriguing premise: that the study of the great Homeric epic of war, The Iliad, can illuminate our understanding of Vietnam, and vice versa. Along the way, he compares the battlefield experiences of men like Agamemnon and Patroclus with those of frontline grunts, analyzes the berserker rage that overcame Achilles and so many American soldiers alike, and considers the ways in which societies ancient and modern have accounted for and dealt with post-traumatic stress disorder---a malady only recently recognized in the medical literature, but well attested in Homer's pages. .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35455
- Title
- ACHILLES IN VIETNAM Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
- Author
- Shay, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0684813211
- ISBN 13
- 9780684813219
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0684813211, Counseling, Psychology & Counseling, Health, Mind & Body, Neuropsychology, Social Sciences, Nonfiction, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Stress, Personal Health
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern History; Military & Warfare;
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