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No man's land : preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America / Elizabeth D. Samet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samet, Elizabeth D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veterans--United States--Psychology.
- Veterans.
- Homecoming--United States.
- Homecoming.
- War and literature--United States.
- War and literature.
- History, Military.
- Social aspects.
- Psychology.
- United States--History, Military--Social aspects--21st century.
- United States.
- Veterans--Psychology.
- Genre:
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Preparing for war and peace in post-9/11 America
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Summary:
- "An exploration of one of the crucial problems of our time--how soldiers return home from war--by a professor of literature at West Point"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Earth's melancholy map
- Between Scylla and Charybdis: Coming home
- "The one thing needful": Paradoxes of preparation
- "On the verge of the true forest": Trusting the imaginary forces
- Coda: The accident of elegies.
- ISBN:
- 9780374222772
- 0374222770
- OCLC:
- 869263697
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