Achilles in Vietnam e-bog

An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.In this moving, dazzlingly creative 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. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a ';transcendent literary adventure' (The New York Times) and ';clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War' (Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried).