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Achilles in Vietnam
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Jonathan Shay
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffer
Odysseus in America
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Jonathan Shay
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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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 tra
Combat Trauma
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: James D. Johnson
Categories: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-15 - Publisher:

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Provides information on the long-term effects of combat trauma through the experiences of fifteen Vietnam veterans, describing how their combat trauma symptoms
Loon
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Jack McLean
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-25 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Acade
Shook Over Hell
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Eric T. Dean
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Vietnam still haunts the American conscience. Not only did nearly 58,000 Americans die there, but--by some estimates--1.5 million veterans returned with war-ind