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Author:

Petersen, Glenn, author.

Title:

War and the arc of human experience / Glenn Petersen.

Publisher:

Hamilton Booksan imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Petersen, Glenn.
United States.--Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11--Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11--Biography.
United States.--Navy--Aviation electronics technicians--Biography.
United States.--Navy.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
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.
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.
Post-traumatic stress disorder--Patients.
Psychological aspects.
Radar operators.
United States.
1961-1975
Yankee Station--Yankee Station
Biographies.
Personal narratives--American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Why we fight -- Becoming a warrior -- Everyday danger -- Stress and decompression -- Thinking I've left war -- Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! -- War and the arc of human experience -- Everyday war -- We fought -- Appendix: SERE, torture, psychologists, and the CIA.

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.

ISBN:

0761872353
9780761872351

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1235906741

LCCN:

2021003749

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)