Achilles in Vietnam
Subtitle: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Edition: First Touchstone edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: October 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780684813219
Subjects: Social Sciences; Psychology; Vietnam; Neuropsychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychological aspects; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War neuroses
First sentence: We begin in the moral world of the soldier-what his culture understands to be right-and betrayal of that moral order by a commander.