No man's land
Subtitle: preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America
By: Elizabeth D. Samet
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780374222772; 9780374709013
Subjects: Psychology; Social aspects; Military History; War and literature; United States; Personal Memoirs; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Military; Veterans; Homecoming; HISTORY
Other titles: Preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America
Description: "An exploration of one of the crucial problems of our time--how soldiers return home from war--by a professor of literature at West Point"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Earth's melancholy map; title: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Coming home; title: "The one thing needful": Paradoxes of preparation; title: "On the verge of the true forest": Trusting the imaginary forces; title: Coda: The accident of elegies.