Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
by:
Jonathan Shay (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689121821 (0689121822)
Publish date: May 26th 1994
Publisher: Atheneum
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Military History,
Mythology
This is one of the toughest books that I have read to date and pretty much halfway through the chapter on grief I found that my brain had been reduced to slush. Now, I have never been to war and never experienced war, but when Shay says in his introduction that this book will have a tendency to brin...