Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay

Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

Jonathan Shay

272 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced

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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 writ...

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