How Long to Read Achilles Heel

How Long Does it Take to Read Achilles Heel?

It takes the average reader to read Achilles Heel by Moncrieff Cochran

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Description

As a Harvard freshman in 1960, Mon Cochran signed up for officer training with the Marine Corps, prompted by his family's history of honorable service and a new president who urged Americans to ask "what you can do for your country." After nearly a decade of peacetime, he never imagined he'd see real fighting.But in August 1965-after just six months of basic officer training, newly married and stationed in California to learn intelligence work-the author and his helicopter squadron were shipped across the Pacific to the coast of Vietnam. We get a vivid account of Lieutenant Cochran's 13-month deployment in-country: carrying out intelligence assignments but also commanding a perimeter defense platoon, extracting troops from "hot" landing zones, and serving as a judge in a court-martial. Episodes of terror, exhausting routine, and surreal black comedy are punctuated by sharp analysis of why things so often went wrong and his growing doubts about the mission.Preceding that white-hot core story is a sojourn into the author's background of privilege in his home town on Cape Cod. Postwar, his odyssey sails on through graduate school in psychology, a lauded career as a professor of early child development at Cornell, and a solid family life with his Swedish-born wife and their two children. He became an active opponent of the war but kept his own experience under lock and key-even while haunted by manifestations of post-traumatic stress. The combat death in 1967 of his beloved cousin made a tragic war even more intensely personal. Decades later, the breakup of his marriage finally drove him to therapy, uncovering the roots of his deep-seated anger.Writing this memoir helped the author make sense of and heal from his trauma. And the process yielded valuable lessons from that time, especially his attraction to cultures outside his own. His storytelling prowess, his grasp of history, and his perspective as a son of close-knit New England clans distinguish the book. Woven through it are his passions for social justice, the welfare of children, and the natural world, and his gift for soul-nourishing friendships.

How long is Achilles Heel?

Achilles Heel by Moncrieff Cochran is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read Achilles Heel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Achilles Heel aloud.

What Reading Level is Achilles Heel?

Achilles Heel is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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