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Thank you for your service [sound recording] / by Finkel, David,1955-; Bishop, Arthur.nrt.;
Narrated by Arthur Bishop ; introduction read by the author.Finkel, a journalist, follows the soldiers who serve in the Iraq War as they struggle to reintegrate into American society.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Post-traumatic stress disorder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Thank you for your service / by Finkel, David,1955-author.(CARDINAL)496388;
"Finkel, a journalist, follows the soldiers who serve in the Iraq War as they struggle to reintegrate into American society"--No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous "surge". Now, in Thank You for Your Service, Finkel tells the true story of those men as they return home from the front-lines of Baghdad and struggle to reintegrate--both into their family lives and into American society at large. Finkel is with these veterans in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like--not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done. Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for?---AMAZON.
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Post-traumatic stress disorder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Overcoming post-deployment syndrome : a six-step mission to health / by Cifu, David X.(CARDINAL)499508; Blake, Cory.(CARDINAL)388604; Blake, Cory.(CARDINAL)388604;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Putting it all together : a holistic system for health -- Post-deployment syndrome : the illness of war -- Military and veteran health care systems : a traditional approach -- A new model of wellness (rebuilding the warrior) -- First step : understanding your body's symptoms -- Second step : discovering your strengths and resources -- Applying healing principles -- Re-establishing normalcy -- Creativity : integrating health into your life -- Resuming the productive mission : basic training -- The return of the warrior : a lifetime of success."Dr. David Cifu and Cory Blake work at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Polytrauma Center (one of only four in the country), providing intensive rehabilitation care to service members who have experienced injuries to multiple organ systems. This type of injury that results in physical, cognitive, psychological, and psychological impairments has recently been identified as "Post-Deployment Syndrome." Overcoming Post-Deployment Syndrome offers soldiers and their families a comprehensive guide to dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. The book details state-of-the-art treatments for these difficulties and outlines specific ways to improve couple and family relationships. It offers tips on rejoining the workforce and reconnecting with children, and it focuses on the integration of traditional and complementary techniques. Overcoming Post-Deployment Syndrome provides personal vignettes from soldiers who have successfully reintegrated into their families, workplaces, and communities, a wealth of community and government resources, tips, and suggestions. Dr. Cifu and Cory Blake have been at the forefront of treating veterans - they know what the issues are and have answers"--History has taught us repeatedly that it is possible to overcome adversity. Cities and nations have been rebuilt after war and calamity. Entire companies and even industries have come back from economic failure and ruin. There are scores of books and movies filled with individuals who have beaten the odds and returned to their personal greatness. The goal of this book is to teach you the techniques needed to help you to rebuild, to aid you in your comeback, and to allow you to return to your own greatness. It won't necessarily be easy. It won't be given to you on a silver platter. You'll need to work for it. You'll need to strap on your boots to make it happen. You will have to fully engage to meet this new mission. But it can happen. Your road to wellness is in front of you. It's as real as the road outside your door. It's as possible as any success story. It's your own personal miracle waiting to happen"--
Subjects: Medicine, Military.; Soldiers; Psychology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Thank you for your service / by Finkel, David,1955-(CARDINAL)496388;
"Finkel, a journalist, follows the soldiers who serve in the Iraq War as they struggle to reintegrate into American society"--"From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous surge, a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now Finkel has followed many of those same men as they've returned home and struggled to reintegrate--both into their family lives and into American society at large. In the ironically named Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion not just about the soldiers but about their wives and children. Where do soldiers belong after their homecoming? Is it possible, or even reasonable, to expect them to rejoin their communities as if nothing has happened? And in moments of hardship, who are soldiers expected to turn to if they feel alienated by the world they once lived in? These are the questions Finkel faces as he revisits the brave but shaken men of the 2-16. More than a work of journalism, Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding--shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the chilling realities of war"--
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-2011; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Post-traumatic stress disorder;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 29
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Southern Reconstruction / by Leigh, Philip,author.(CARDINAL)348188;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.Foundations of change -- Wartime reconstruction -- Ruination -- "Joshua" Johnson -- Carpetbagged -- Railroaded -- Corrupted -- Southern reparations -- Sharecropped -- Redeemed -- Divorced -- Racial adjustment -- Protracted consequences -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Monetary supply theory during reconstruction."The Reconstruction Era-the years immediately following the Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration of the former Confederate states into the Union-remains, as historian Eric Foner suggests, "America's unfinished revolution." But Reconstruction is more than a story of great racial injustice; it has left a complex legacy involving both blacks and whites, Southerners and Northerners, that is reflected today by the fact that many of the states with the highest rates of poverty were part of the former Confederacy. In Southern Reconstruction, Philip Leigh examines Federal wartime legislation in order to broaden our understanding of Reconstruction, revealing how it led to African Americans being used as political pawns, first to ensure continued Republican rule, and finally to be blamed for the South's hardships in order to draw poor whites away from Populism and back to the aristocratic white Democratic banner. Civil War laws, such as the Confiscation Acts, Pacific Railroad Acts, Homestead Act, Legal Tender Act, National Banking Act, and Veterans Pensions Acts, transformed America's banking system, built a railroad web, and launched the Gilded Age in the North and West, but it also created a dubious alliance between banks and government, sparked corruption, purposely depressed Southern industry, trapped Southern farmers-both black and white-in endless annual peonage cycles, and failed to provide lands for freedmen. While Reconstruction was intended to return the South to the Union, it could not be effective with laws that abetted Southern poverty, disfranchised many whites, fostered racial animosity to a point where lynchings and Jim Crow laws erupted, and lined the pockets of wealthy or politically well-connected business leaders outside of the region."--Jacket.
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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