Fiona Reid is Deputy Head of Humanities at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She is the co-editor of Women on the Move: Refugees, Migration and Exile (2010) and is currently working on responses to facial injury during the First World War.

This is a deeply stimulating and, in many respects, arresting book. Based on original research, it breaks new ground in getting us to see how entangled are our ideas and beliefs about shell shock with the meanings we have ascribed to the First World War. If we are to reconsider shell shock, we shall also have to reconsider the First World War. This book will be an invaluable aid in that process. -- Peter Barham, author of Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War. Author article in BBC History Magazine, Novmber 2009 This book offers an important, and as yet under-researched, approach to understanding the history of shell-shock...overall the book is well written, brings to light important material that has been neglected in much of the writing on this topic, and argues convincingly for the importance of returning to primary sources to understand the conflicting versions of shell-shock and their social and political impact, during and in the immediate aftermath of the war. Very importantly, it brings new material and a new angle to this discussion. -- Carol Acton, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is Reid's judicious and non-sentimental analysis of the aftermath of war for shell-shocked men that makes this a book well worth reading. -- History Today

• IntroductionChapter 1: Shell shock and weak nervesChapter 2: Encountering Shell-shocked menChapter 3: Lest we forgetChapter 4: Lunatics and lunacy reformChapter 5: No longer 'nerve-wracked boys'Chapter 6: Shell shock and veterans' voicesBibliographyIndex

Fiona Reid is Deputy Head of Humanities at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She is the co-editor of Women on the Move: Refugees, Migration and Exile (2010) and is currently working on responses to facial injury during the First World War.

This is a deeply stimulating and, in many respects, arresting book. Based on original research, it breaks new ground in getting us to see how entangled are our ideas and beliefs about shell shock with the meanings we have ascribed to the First World War. If we are to reconsider shell shock, we shall also have to reconsider the First World War. This book will be an invaluable aid in that process. -- Peter Barham, author of Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War. Author article in BBC History Magazine, Novmber 2009 This book offers an important, and as yet under-researched, approach to understanding the history of shell-shock...overall the book is well written, brings to light important material that has been neglected in much of the writing on this topic, and argues convincingly for the importance of returning to primary sources to understand the conflicting versions of shell-shock and their social and political impact, during and in the immediate aftermath of the war. Very importantly, it brings new material and a new angle to this discussion. -- Carol Acton, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is Reid's judicious and non-sentimental analysis of the aftermath of war for shell-shocked men that makes this a book well worth reading. -- History Today

• IntroductionChapter 1: Shell shock and weak nervesChapter 2: Encountering Shell-shocked menChapter 3: Lest we forgetChapter 4: Lunatics and lunacy reformChapter 5: No longer 'nerve-wracked boys'Chapter 6: Shell shock and veterans' voicesBibliographyIndex

Fiona Reid is Deputy Head of Humanities at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She is the co-editor of Women on the Move: Refugees, Migration and Exile (2010) and is currently working on responses to facial injury during the First World War.

This is a deeply stimulating and, in many respects, arresting book. Based on original research, it breaks new ground in getting us to see how entangled are our ideas and beliefs about shell shock with the meanings we have ascribed to the First World War. If we are to reconsider shell shock, we shall also have to reconsider the First World War. This book will be an invaluable aid in that process. -- Peter Barham, author of Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War. Author article in BBC History Magazine, Novmber 2009 This book offers an important, and as yet under-researched, approach to understanding the history of shell-shock...overall the book is well written, brings to light important material that has been neglected in much of the writing on this topic, and argues convincingly for the importance of returning to primary sources to understand the conflicting versions of shell-shock and their social and political impact, during and in the immediate aftermath of the war. Very importantly, it brings new material and a new angle to this discussion. -- Carol Acton, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is Reid's judicious and non-sentimental analysis of the aftermath of war for shell-shocked men that makes this a book well worth reading. -- History Today

• IntroductionChapter 1: Shell shock and weak nervesChapter 2: Encountering Shell-shocked menChapter 3: Lest we forgetChapter 4: Lunatics and lunacy reformChapter 5: No longer 'nerve-wracked boys'Chapter 6: Shell shock and veterans' voicesBibliographyIndex