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.

• Chapter 1: Shell shock and weak nerves; Chapter 2: Civilian doctors at war; Chapter 3: Victory and victims in the post-war world; Chapter 4: Lunatics and lunacy reform; Chapter 5: Work and welfare; Chapter 6: Remembering Shell shock.

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.

• Chapter 1: Shell shock and weak nerves; Chapter 2: Civilian doctors at war; Chapter 3: Victory and victims in the post-war world; Chapter 4: Lunatics and lunacy reform; Chapter 5: Work and welfare; Chapter 6: Remembering Shell shock.

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.

• Chapter 1: Shell shock and weak nerves; Chapter 2: Civilian doctors at war; Chapter 3: Victory and victims in the post-war world; Chapter 4: Lunatics and lunacy reform; Chapter 5: Work and welfare; Chapter 6: Remembering Shell shock.