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Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
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Author:
Charles Glass
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
June 6, 2023
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.
What The Reviewers Say
Deeply researched.
[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..
Glass... delivers a clear picture of how poetry of the war... shifted not just from jingoistic to critical, but also sought out new metaphors for the agonies of the trenches, concerned as much with soldiers’ psyches as their bravery.
