Home from the War Vietnam Veterans Neither Victims Nor Executioners by Robert Jay Lifton - 1973

London England: Wildwood House, 1974. Hardback. First Edition. Home From the War. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. This book is about the process of individual and collective transformation from war to peace. It deals with what is probably man's oldest and most fundamental theme - that of death and rebirth, suffering and realization. And it deals with these life-death issues that pervade the psychology of the survivor directly and dramatically. Dr. Lifton has worked with Vietnam veterans for two years and conducted intensive interviews with a survivor of Mylai, with survivors of the 'heroin epidemic' that rages in Indochina, with those who felt themselves 'at the butt end of a bad war'. These men who have existed in the zones of rage and violence, for whom everything began and reverted back to the absurdity of dying in Vietnam. 477 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and… Read More