Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character /
From the publisher: 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 a...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Shay, Jonathan
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Scribner,
[2003]
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| Edition: | 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. |
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