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Aftershock

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Author Matthew Green Published by Granta Books ISBN 9781846273315 EAN 9781846273315 Bic Code Cover Paperback

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Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf and called it heroism. But what happens when the heroes come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In ‘Aftershock,’ Matthew Green will tell the story of our veterans’ journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return. Through first person accounts and wide-ranging interviews with former combatants and their families, serving personnel and military experts, as well as physicians and psychologists, ‘Aftershock’ will look beyond the labels of shell shock and PTSD to get to the heart of today’s post-conflict experience. It will pursue the question that the military are so reluctant to ask: why do people who are trained to thrive within the theatre of war so often find themselves ill-prepared for peace?