A review by desertjarhead505
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay

5.0

A powerful study of the impact of PTSD on the human personality, using the Iliad and other classic literary portraits of traumatized warriors to illustrate the timelessness of this problem with special emphasis on the reasons that the Vietnam war was a more shattering experience for many veterans than other wars have been.