{"product_id":"sleeping-soldiers-453bbchyf","title":"Sleeping soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow the military used sleep as a weaponÑand how soldiers fought back \u003cbr\u003e\nOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of Òcombat fatigue.Ó Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponize both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptomsÑnightmares, flashbacks, insomnia Ñand pioneered new methods of protest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Fighting Sleep, Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the postwar world, revealing that the subject was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and antiwar activism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ÊFranny Nudelman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49013893398681,"sku":"9781786637819","price":990.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/5642\/6905\/files\/fighting-sleep_1098c8e1-661c-428a-a6a5-cca2c10e9889.jpg?v=1789228924","url":"https:\/\/booksworldstore.com\/products\/sleeping-soldiers-453bbchyf","provider":"Books World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}