Achilles in Vietnam
A friend, himself a Vietnam combat veteran, gave me a copy of Achilles In Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, by Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD. Published in 1994, Shay transposes Homer’s Iliad with the combat experiences of Vietnam veterans still suffering after more than twenty years after the war. Taken from the testimony of these traumatized vets it is written as much by them as by Shay.