Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
Language: English
Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, Canada, 2016
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First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with gray boards, black spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings to note. However interior text block bound with spine upside down. Small black dot on bottom of text block. Dust jacket very good with only ghost of spine & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the book, ". a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in the world. traumatized by witnessing genocide on an imponderable scale in Rwanda, reflects in these pages on the nature of PTSD and the impact of that deep wound on his life.but he crawled back out of the despair and has been inspiring people to give their all to multiple missions ever since, from ending genocide to eradicating the use of child soldiers to revolutionizing officer training .".…
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- Title
- Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
- Author
- Dallaire, Romeo
- Publisher
- Random House Canada, Toronto, Canada
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345814436
- ISBN 13
- 9780345814432
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Conduct of Life, Medicine & Medical Related
At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in the world.
Roméo Dallaire, traumatized by witnessing genocide on an imponderable scale in Rwanda, reflects in these pages on the nature of PTSD and the impact of that deep wound on his life since 1994, and on how he motivates himself and others to humanitarian work despite his constant struggle. Though he had been a leader in peace and in war at all levels up to deputy commander of the Canadian Army, his PTSD led to his medical dismissal from the Canadian Forces in April 2000, a blow that almost killed him. But he crawled out of the hole he fell into after he had to take off the uniform, and he has been inspiring people to give their all to multiple missions ever since, from ending genocide to eradicating the use of child soldiers to revolutionizing officer training so that our soldiers can better deal with the muddy reality of modern conflict zones and to revolutionizing our thinking about the changing nature of conflict itself.
His new book is as compelling and original an account of suffering and endurance as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and William Styron's Darkness Visible.
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About the Author
JESSICA DEE HUMPHREYS is co-author of the acclaimed bestsellers Child Soldier: How Boys and Girls are Used in War and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children.
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