Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,  abreviated to PTSD, was poorly recognized after World War 1. It was at that time labled as “Shell Shock”, with no meaningful understanding about it. Men who survived fighting in the muddy trenches, being shot, shelled, and bayonetted in unprecidented unthinkable numbers were traumatized. They saw so many colleagues get killed, that they felt guilty for having survived themselves. For the rest of many survivors’ lives, they had recurrent distressing memories of the horrors through which they had lived. Those memories often returned in a flash, immediately provoking all the emotions felt at that time of death and bloody murder. They relived those events in nightmares. In addition their life-time persistent depression and chronic anxiety handicapped them functioning, back in their normal lives. Many learned to avoid seemingly disconnected events, persons or places, if they recognized that those persons or places and events triggered terrible memories.  Some succumbed, and committed suicide to escape their PTSD.  “The Rifle”, in the novel as an unemotional instrument of death, be it when killing a German Human, or an antelope. The Rifle is RM Rotcod’s book’s protagonist that relates the entire story of one man’s life in acquiring PTSD and how he dealt with it, and how it affected even the generations after him.  The Rifle despite being so utterly devoid of emotion itself, deeply recognizes the emotions in the humans of whom it calmly tells the story. The story ends when the rifle finally experiences emotions itself, as it starts to die from rust. The very meaning of life and death then becomes apparent. The ending of this story is joyful and celebratory.  Read the book, “I am The Rifle,and I kill” - available on Amazon (Click) - eBook and print. Write to the author your book review, or any questions and other comments. AUTHOR (click)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder,  abreviated to PTSD, was poorly recognized after World War 1. It was at that time labled as “Shell Shock”, with no meaningful understanding about it. Men who survived fighting in the muddy trenches, being shot, shelled, and bayonetted in unprecidented unthinkable numbers were traumatized. They saw so many colleagues get killed, that they felt guilty for having survived themselves. For the rest of many survivors’ lives, they had recurrent distressing memories of the horrors through which they had lived. Those memories often returned in a flash, immediately provoking all the emotions felt at that time of death and bloody murder. They relived those events in nightmares. In addition their life-time persistent depression and chronic anxiety handicapped them functioning, back in their normal lives. Many learned to avoid seemingly disconnected events, persons or places, if they recognized that those persons or places and events triggered terrible memories.  Some succumbed, and committed suicide to escape their PTSD.  “The Rifle”, in the novel as an unemotional instrument of death, be it when killing a German Human, or an antelope. The Rifle is RM Rotcod’s book’s protagonist that relates the entire story of one man’s life in acquiring PTSD and how he dealt with it, and how it affected even the generations after him.  The Rifle despite being so utterly devoid of emotion itself, deeply recognizes the emotions in the humans of whom it calmly tells the story. The story ends when the rifle finally experiences emotions itself, as it starts to die from rust. The very meaning of life and death then becomes apparent. The ending of this story is joyful and celebratory.  Read the book, “I am The Rifle,and I kill” - available on Amazon (Click) - eBook and print. Write to the author your book review, or any questions and other comments. AUTHOR (click)