Monographie
From Melos to My Lai : war and survival [Texte imprimé]
Type de contenu
- Texte
Titre(s)
- From Melos to My Lai : war and survival [Texte imprimé]
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
- New York : G. Routledge, 2000
Description matérielle
- XV-220 p.
- : couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cm
ISBN
- 0-415-21757-1
Classification décimale Dewey
- 362.86
Note(s)
- Bibliogr.
- Index
Résumé ou extrait
- Did Ajax and Achilles ever suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? In this absorbing account, Vietnam veteran and classics scholar Larry Tritleoffers an incisive analysis of war and its impact upon the soldier and civilian from the classical age to the present day. Tritle discusses the links between battlefield experiences that affect the participants and victims of war in every age, drawing examples from sources as diverse as the Iliad, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War, and the Oliver Stone film Platoon. Each instance sheds light on some of the most puzzling phenomena of war and shows how warriors of epic and real-life struggles responded to battle with their own forms of shell shock, battle madness, and bonding.
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