bibliography - recent
books on PTSD; memoirs by soldiers and activists from Iraq and Afghanistan
recent layperson’s reading
on psych effects of war -- since 2003
Grant, Robert, Ph.D. The Way of the Wound: A Spirituality of
Trauma and Transformation. 1996.
since 2003
Armstrong, Keith, LCSW/ Best, Domenici. Courage After Fire:
Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their
Families. Ulysses Press, 2006.
Cantrell, Bridget, Ph.D/ and Dean, Chuck. Once a Warrior:
Wired For Life. WordSmith Books, 2007.
----- Downrange: To Iraq and Back. WordSmith Books,
2005.
Meagher, Ilona. Moving a Nation to Care: Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops. Ig Publishing, 2007.
Mollica, Richard F., M.D. Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to
Hope and Recovery in a Violent World. Harcourt, 2006.
Tich, Edward, Ph.D., War and the Soul: Healing Our Nations’s
Veterans from Post-Traumatic Disorder. Quest Books, 2005.
recent memoirs of war
experience
Buzzell, Colby. My War: Killing Time in Iraq. G.P.Putnam
Sons, 2005.
Carroll, Andrew, ed. Operation Homecoming: Iraq,
Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families.
Random House (sponsors: NEA/DoD), 2006.
Henderson, Kristin. While They’re at War: The True Story of
American Families on the Homefront. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Himes, Andrew, ed. Voices in Wartime: A Collection of
Narratives and Poems. Whit Press, 2005.
Rieckhoff, Paul. Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier’s Fight for
America from Baghdad to Washington. NAL Caliber, 2006.
Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet. (poems) - Alice James
Books, 2005.
Wood, Trish. What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the
Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It. Little, Brown, 2006.
memoirs by resistors who
have served in Iraq
Mejía, Camilo. Road From Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of
Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía. The New Press, 2007.
Benderman, Kevin. Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of
Conscience. The Lyons Press, 2007.
Delgado, Aidan. The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes from a
Conscientious Objector in Iraq. Beacon Press, 2007.
writing by peace activists
in Iraq
Ferner, Mike. Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace
Reports from Iraq. Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Smith-Ferri, David. Battlefield Without Borders: Iraq Poems.
Haley’s, 2007.
poetry, fiction, essays
Kingston, Maxine Hong, ed. Veterans of War, Veterans of
Peace. Koa Books, 2006.