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From Melos to My Lai : Violence, Culture and Survival
From Melos to My Lai Violence Culture and Survival Author:Lawrence A. Tritle Did Ajax and Achilles ever suffer from Post-traumatic stress syndrome? — In this absorbing account, Vietnam veteran and classics scholar Lawrence A Tritle offers 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... more » 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 Pelopenesian Wars, and the Oliver Stone film "Platoon." Each instance sheds light on some of the most puzzling phemonena of war and shows how the heroes of epic responded to battle with their own forms of "shellshock," battle-madness and bonding.« less