كتاب
Soldier from the war returning: the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II
| العنوان: | Soldier from the war returning: the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II |
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| المؤلفون: | Childers, Thomas, 1946- |
| بيانات النشر: | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| وصف مادي: | 340 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History, 20th Century., World War II., Social Conditions., Veterans -- psychology., Combat Disorders -- psychology., Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic -- psychology., World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- United States., Veterans -- Mental health -- United States., Veterans -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century., World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects., Post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| Subject Person: | Childers, Thomas., Gold, Michael., Allen, Willis., Childers, Tom. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States. |
| الوصف: | One of our great national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in World War II. The Greatest Generation, we're told, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with rebuilding their lives. Here, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decade's worth of research to paint an entirely new picture of the war's aftermath. Drawing on government documents, interviews, oral histories and diaries, he reveals that 10,000 veterans a month were being diagnosed with psycho-neurotic disorder (now known as PTSD). Alcoholism, homelessness, and unemployment were rampant, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate. Many veterans bounced back, but their struggle has been lost in a wave of nostalgia that threatens to undermine a new generation of returning soldiers. This book is a stark reminder that the price of war is unimaginably high.--From publisher description. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | "When this bloody war is over". Anticipation ; Shock ; Anxiety -- "Soldier from the wars returning". As if nothing ever happened ; Open wounds ; "It's been a long, long time" -- Echoes of war. "The war's over, soldier" ; Aftershocks ; Picking up the pieces. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn262426524 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-618-77368-8 0-618-77368-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-325) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.011980925.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780618773688 0618773681 |
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