Achilles In Vietnam: Combat Trauma And The Undoing Of Character

  • Author: Jonathan Shay
  • Narrator: David Strathairn
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 8:44:40
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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).

Chapters

  • 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