Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

by JonathanM.D.Shay (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1995

  $15.78

  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.