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War and the arc of human experience / Glenn Petersen.
Penn Museum Library DS559.5 .P438 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petersen, Glenn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Radar operators.
- United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Naval operations, American.
- Radar operators--United States--Biography.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Psychological aspects.
- Psychological aspects.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Armed Forces--Aviation electronics technicians.
- Military operations, Aerial--American.
- Military operations, Naval--American.
- Petersen, Glenn.
- United States. Navy. Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11--Biography.
- United States. Navy--Aviation electronics technicians--Biography.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- x, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
- Summary:
- "In this book, an anthropologist sets his experiences as a teenager fighting in the Vietnam War within the larger sweep of American culture and society. When his daughter is born decades after he returned from war the violence of those experiences, long suppressed, emerges from the shadows"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Why We Fight
- 2. Becoming A Warrior
- 3. Everyday Danger
- 4. Stress And Decompression
- 5. Thinking I've Left The War
- 6. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!
- 7. War And The Arc Of Human Experience
- 8. Everyday War
- 9. Why We Fought.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Petersen, Glenn, 1947- War and the arc of human experience
- ISBN:
- 9780761872351
- 0761872353
- OCLC:
- 1235906741
- Publisher Number:
- 99990015527
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