Dr Fiona Reid is Lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. Her research areas include the social history of WWI and the remembrance and commemoration of 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.) '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.

Dr Fiona Reid is Lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. Her research areas include the social history of WWI and the remembrance and commemoration of 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.) '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.

Dr Fiona Reid is Lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. Her research areas include the social history of WWI and the remembrance and commemoration of 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.) '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.