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 | Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1st Edition) by Jonathan M.D. Shay Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-684-81321-1 / 0684813211 ISBN-13: 978-0-684-81321-9 / 9780684813219 Shay works from an intriguing premise: that the study of the great Homeric epic of war, The Iliad, can illuminate our understanding of Vietnam, and vice versa. Along the way, he compares the battlefield experiences of men like Agamemnon and Patroclus with those of frontline grunts, analyzes the ber | |