For many veterans, those who survived the war and returned home are mere shadows of their former selves. Military training doesn't prepare one to shed burdens of combat and find meaning in a peacetime life. Richard A. Price is a Vietnam veteran who recognized this and created his own operations manual on how to manage post-traumatic stress disorder on the road back to normalcy.

"From Nam to Normal: Battle of the Demons" uses military language to communicate strategies, experiences, expectations, and eventual daily management of the dense jungles and bogs that is PTSD. Chapter titles...