Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

The author of Achilles in Vietnam explores the problems faced by combat veterans when they re-enter American life, using Homer's Odyssey as an allegorical template and advocating changes in American military practice that could help prevent psychological and moral injury to military personnel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

• | Author: Jonathan Shay M.D.
• | Publisher: Scribner
• | Publication Date: November 25, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 074321157X
• | ISBN-13: 9780743211574