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The Return of the Soldier surprisingly kept me interested for the entire ninety pages. I have read books and poetry with war as the main subject, but for some reason I never seem to keep interest. Offhand, I can remember reading O’Brien’s The Things They Carried in high school. I did not particularly dislike the book, but I became a little tired of hearing a number of similar horror stories over and over again about Vietnam. I think that when I read a book about war, I begin with the attitude that I know how horrible war is, and I know what these soldiers are going to have to say about it. No one is going to have good things to say about his/her sidekick comrade getting blown to pieces by bombs, missiles, and machine guns (unless he/she is a propagandist). However, The Return of the Soldier was different. This book was not about different people dying, nor was it about the “many” hardships encountered in war. Instead it was simple and to the point, which, in hindsight, seems that that should have been obvious considering the briefness of the book. The reason that I liked this book is because I have never, in my entire academic career (and this may be hard to believe), learned or read about shell shock. In fact, I never even knew what it did to some people until we watched that video in class. Not even in history classes did we talk about shell shock.
Approximate Word count = 970
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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