Aftershock
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Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers 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 tells the story of our veterans' journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return.
Through wide-ranging interviews with former combatants -- including a Royal Marine sniper and a former operator in the SAS - as well as serving personnel and their families, physicians, therapists, and psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the headline-grabbing statistics and the labels of post-traumatic stress disorder to get to the heart of today's post-conflict experience. Green asks what lessons have been learned from past wars, and explores the range of help currently available, from traditional talking cures to cutting-edge scientific therapies. As today's battle-scarred troops begin to lay their weapons down, Aftershock is a hard-hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma and survive.
Matthew Green is a journalist dedicated to exploring how an understanding of collective trauma can help solve our global crises. Green began his career as a journalist working in east Africa, where he wrote his first book the Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Joseph Kony. After spending 14 years working internationally as a correspondent, including in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Green returned to Britain to write Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma and Finding Peace, which documents the struggles of military veterans and their families to find new ways to recover from the trauma of war. Green is now focused on climate accountability journalism, and writes Resonant World, a newsletter serving the global movement dedicated to healing the impact of individual, ancestral and collective trauma.