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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Leese, Peter. Shell shock. New York : Palgrave, ©2002 (DLC) 2002022412 (OCoLC)49260652 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Leese; Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
ISBN: | 9780230287921 0230287921 9781349429097 1349429090 |
OCLC Number: | 681926292 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) |
Contents: | Shocking Modernity: Hysteria, Technology and Warfare -- Casualties: On the Western Front -- Enlistment: Army Policy, Politics and the Press -- Treatment: On the Home Front -- Patients: The Other Ranks -- Patients: The Officer Ranks -- Demobilization: On Returning Home -- Veterans: War Neurotic Ex-Servicemen -- Recall: The Great War in the Twentieth Century. |
Responsibility: | Peter Leese. |
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'One of the crucial and most moving episodes of twentieth century British history has now found its worthy historian. Peter Leese writes the story of shell shock with expertise and flair, with critical detachment and compassion. Avoiding judgementalism, he brings out the full enormity of this tragic story.' - Professor Roy Porter, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine'The book fills a glaring gap in our historical knowledge.' - Mark Micale, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois'Shell shock was born as a condition in 1915 but has grown to become a metaphor for the horrors of total war. Leese tells the story of that evolution with learning, sympathy and a shrewd sense of the way medical history can illuminate our understanding of the violent twentieth-century as a whole.' - Professor Jay Winter, Department of History, Yale University'...a powerful and authoritative study of the war's mental legacy.' - Ben Shephard, Times Literary Supplement'Those willing to pay attention, however, will be rewarded by this first full-length treatment of Britain's 'shell-shock' experience.' - Maureen T. Moore, Journal of Military History'...an interesting contribution both to medical history and to the continuing debate about...WWI. - T.L. Crosby, Choice Read more...


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