Aftershock

von Sam Kiley

A gripping and goundbreaking book that tells the inside story of how the men and women we dispatch to fight our battles adapt to life outside the combat zone. 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?