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In this strikingly original and groundbreaking 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. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago it has much... read more

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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.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Jonathan Shay (Author)
 

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