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War and the Arc of Human Experience.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petersen, Glenn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petersen, Glenn.
- United States. Navy. Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Navy--Aviation electronics technicians--Biography.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Naval operations, American.
- Radar operators--United States--Biography.
- Radar operators.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Psychological aspects.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients--United States--Biography.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Hamilton Books, 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 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
- Appendix
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-7236-1
- OCLC:
- 1235902991
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