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Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts: When the War Comes Home—Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and Ptsd
Celia Straus
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Description for Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts: When the War Comes Home—Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and Ptsd
Paperback. This book is crafted around soldiers' personal descriptions of their war experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, culminating in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche, along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16-page photo section. BIC Classification: HBWS4; HBWS5; JWX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book is crafted around soldiers’ personal descriptions of their war experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, culminating in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche, along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. An irony of America’s 21st century wars has been that while our combat medical and medevac capabilities have grown enormously, the nature of many of America’s soldiers’ wounds have undergone a subtle change. Men and women who survive the thick of combat, including repeated concussion blasts, increasingly present a difficult-to-detect kind of injury, no less debilitating than wounds from bullets or shrapnel. Hidden Battles on ... Read more
This book is crafted around soldiers’ personal descriptions of their war experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, culminating in life-altering injuries to the brain and psyche, along with the equally dramatic story of their recoveries. An irony of America’s 21st century wars has been that while our combat medical and medevac capabilities have grown enormously, the nature of many of America’s soldiers’ wounds have undergone a subtle change. Men and women who survive the thick of combat, including repeated concussion blasts, increasingly present a difficult-to-detect kind of injury, no less debilitating than wounds from bullets or shrapnel. Hidden Battles on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Casemate Publishers United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781935149408
SKU
V9781935149408
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About Celia Straus
Celia Straus is author of the national bestseller, Prayers On My Pillow, and an award-winning film writer/producer who has been writing about the war-related experiences of service members and their families since 2003. The Armed Forces Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the men and women of America’s military.
Reviews for Hidden Battles on Unseen Fronts: When the War Comes Home—Stories of American Soldiers with Traumatic Brain Injury and Ptsd
Thankfully the U.S. military’s battlefield support has vastly improved since prior wars. However, the signature wound of 21st century warfare—Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as PTSD—may lie beyond the current reach of standard medical procedures, and is more evidenced by the postwar stories of the soldiers themselves. In this book we get a thorough look at the travails of our ... Read more