A history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I.
[A] brisk, rewarding account of the innovative doctors and their "neurasthenic" patients who suffered unprecedented psychological distress (and in unprecedented numbers) on the Western Front.
Glass writes a simple, honest, straightforward engrossing history of the epic scale of post-traumatic stress disorder during the First World War as studied in Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh. The narrative includes many individual case studies that make the war real.
