24,47 €
27,19 €
-10% with code: EXTRA
Achilles in Vietnam
24,47 € 
- We will send in 10–14 business days.
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 I…
/images/books/4081523/9780684813219.jpg)
- Author: Jonathan Shay
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- ISBN-10: 0684813211
- ISBN-13: 9780684813219
- Format: 14.1 x 21.4 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
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).
The promotion ends in 
- Author: Jonathan Shay
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- ISBN-10: 0684813211
- ISBN-13: 9780684813219
- Format: 14.1 x 21.4 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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).
Reviews