Achilles In Vietnam: Combat Trauma And The Undoing Of Character
- Author: Jonathan Shay
- Narrator: David Strathairn
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 8:44:40
Synopsis
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).
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001 AchillesInVietnam Title
Duration: 46s -
002 AchillesInVietnam Foreward
Duration: 01min -
003 AchillesInVietnam Introduction
Duration: 30min -
004 AchillesInVietnam Part1 Chapter01
Duration: 50min -
005 AchillesInVietnam Part1 Chapter02
Duration: 40min -
006 AchillesInVietnam Part1 Chapter03
Duration: 01h09min -
007 AchillesInVietnam Part1 Chapter04
Duration: 16min -
008 AchillesInVietnam Part1 Chapter05
Duration: 56min -
009 AchillesInVietnam Part2 Chapter06
Duration: 43min -
010 AchillesInVietnam Part2 Chapter07
Duration: 38min -
011 AchillesInVietnam Part2 Chapter08
Duration: 29min -
012 AchillesInVietnam Part2 Chapter09
Duration: 29min -
013 AchillesInVietnam Part3 Chapter10
Duration: 45min -
014 AchillesInVietnam Part3 Chapter11
Duration: 31min -
015 AchillesInVietnam Conclusion
Duration: 39min -
016 AchillesInVietnam Credits
Duration: 50s