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No man's land : preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America /

"An exploration of one of the crucial problems of our time--how soldiers return home from war--by a professor of literature at West Point"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samet, Elizabeth D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition:1st edition.
Subjects:
Veterans > United States > Psychology.
Homecoming > United States.
War and literature > United States.
United States > History, Military > Social aspects > 21st century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY > Military > United States.
Homecoming.
Social aspects.
Veterans > Psychology.
War and literature.
United States.
2000 - 2099
Military history.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Earth's melancholy map
  • Between Scylla and Charybdis: Coming home
  • "The one thing needful": Paradoxes of preparation
  • "On the verge of the true forest": Trusting the imaginary forces
  • Coda: The accident of elegies.