From Library Journal
Bringing academic focus onto the experience of modern warfare generally produces a schism between the dispassion of the examiner and the passion of the combatant. Nevertheless, this work sheds light on the combat experience and its effect on the survivors. With interview transcripts from both U.S. veterans of Vietnam and Panama and Russian veterans of Afghanistan the editors organize the experience of mental and emotional trauma into such themes as the Soldiers Knowledge, the Dark Side, Healing, and the like. Both thoughtful and dramatic, this should be strongly considered for collections with a military history focus, and certainly for veterans' affairs, where its emphasis on healing will be welcome.
-Mel D. Lane, Sacramento, Cal.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the
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Book Description
Parallels reclaims the experience of American and Soviet participants in the two longest and most devastating episodes of contemporary warfare, Vietnam and Afghanistan, and places them within the context of social and behavioral theory.
As texts, the narratives, here ordered and re-encoded, are as fragmentary as the war experiences they recount. Much of their, language is hermetic; sometimes it is brutal and unpalatable. Within the broader context of this book, however, they attain to a historical relevance, posing a challenge to conventional understandings of contemporary warfare.
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