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Veteran Well-Being books

Below are the best books we could find on Veteran Well-Being.

As veterans, how we adjust to thriving as civilians can be affected by a number of factors. The duration of our careers, the amount of comradery and institutional support we’ve previously experienced, and whether we saw combat can color how we navigate a world whose culture can feel both familiar and foreign. If we saw combat, our minds and bodies have frequently experienced extremes that few others can understand and may affect us for a lifetime. If we had negative experiences or feel betrayed by the institutions that were supposed to protect us, we can feel even more isolated and at sea as we do the work of all veterans rebuilding our sense of purpose, community, and identity. But the truth is we’re not alone, and there are many whose focus is on helping us achieve our fullest well-being.

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Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth

What if there’s an upside to experiencing trauma? Most survivors of trauma—whether they live through life-threatening illnesses or accidents, horror on the battlefield, or the loss of a loved one—can suffer for months, even years.

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed.

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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War

The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history—a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.

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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

“This book will help you flourish.” With this sentence, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is.

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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr.

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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home . . . and then overseas again for two of them.

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China Marine: An Infantryman’s Life after World War II

China Marine is the extraordinary sequel to E.B. Sledge’s memoir, With the Old Breed, which remains the most powerful and moving account of the U.S. Marines in World War II. Sledge continues his story where With the Old Breed left off and recounts the compelling conclusion of his Marine career.

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What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. By grieving alongside Wood, the reader is able to start on a journey of understanding, finding meaning and healing.

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Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind.

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