On 17 August 1917, the meeting of two traumatised soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh would come to define our image of “shell shock”. However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and ...

And the death toll went on rising, already more than half a million British dead since the start ... wasn’t suffering from shell shock and he realised that unless he gave up his protest and ...

First-hand accounts, such as diaries, memoirs, and periodicals, examine the contrasting discourse in British and American literatures. Chapter 1. Transatlantic Shell Shock: An Introduction Austin ...