Contents -- Preface to the Enlarged and Revised Edition: The Continuing Relevance of the Study of Disabled Veterans -- Introduction: Finding Disabled Veterans in History / David A. Gerber -- I. Representation -- Philoctetes in Historical Context / Martha Edwards -- Heroes and Misfits: The Troubled Social Reintegration of Disabled Veterans in The Best Years of Our Lives / David A. Gerber -- Bitterness, Rage, and Redemption: Hollywood Constructs the Disabled Vietnam Veteran / Martin F. Norden -- II. Public Policy -- Disabled Veterans and the State in Early Modern England / Geoffrey L. Hudson -- "A Sacred Debt": Veterans and the State in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France / Isser Woloch -- From Individual Trauma to National Policy: Tracking the Uses of Civil War Veteran Medical Records / Robert I. Goler and Michael G. Rhode -- Work-Therapy and the Disabled British Soldier in Great Britain in the First World War: The Case of Shepherd's Bush Military Hospital, London / Jeffrey S. Reznick -- "Empty Sleeves and Wooden Pegs": Disabled Confederate Veterans in Image and Reality / R. B. Rosenburg -- Fifty Years of Pain: The History of Austrian Disabled Veterans after 1945 / Gregory Weeks -- Disabled Russian War Veterans: Surviving the Collapse of the Soviet Union / Ethel Dunn -- III. Living with a Disability: Adjustments and Maladjustments -- Nomads in Blue: Disabled Veterans and Alcohol at the National Home / James Marten -- Will to Work: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany after the First World War / Deborah Cohen -- Lieutenant John Counsell and the Development of Medical Rehabilitation and Disability Policy in Canada / Mary Tremblay -- Post-Modern American Heroism: Anti-War War Heroes, Survivor Heroes, and the Eclipse of Traditional Warrior Values / David A. Gerber -- Afterword: A Challenge to Historians / Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. -- Contributors.