Achilles In Vietnam Av Jonathan M.D. Shay

<B><b>An original and groundbreaking examination of the psychological devastation of war through the lens of Homer’s <i>Iliad</i> in this “compassionate book [that] deserves a place in the lasting literature of the Vietnam War” (<i>The</i><i>New York Times</i>).</b></B><BR><BR>In this moving and dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Jonathan Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s <I>Iliad </I>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, <I>Achilles in Vietnam</I> is a “transcendent literary adventure” (<I>The New York Times</I>) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of <I>The Things They Carried</I>).<BR><BR>As a Veterans Affairs psychiatrist, Shay encountered devas