tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751 elfbiter elfbiter 2017-05-22T20:55:23Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751:10404 2017-05-22T03:29:45Z 2017-05-22T20:55:23Z public 0 <i><b>Samuel Hynes</b> - The Soldiers' Tale</i><br /><br />This is a book about <i>war narratives</i> - not war as such. Even if Hynes wrote one himself. <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10404.html#cutid1">Did he study too few narratives?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=10404" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751:10040 2017-05-22T03:28:46Z 2017-05-22T03:31:54Z public 0 <b><i>Ben Shephard</i></b> - The Long Road Home<br /><br />After World War Two ended, there were still lots of people who were not where they wanted to be, where they were supposed to be or were in a situation where they would still be killed in short order if they did not move.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/10040.html#cutid1">Post-WW2 refugee movements were bit bigger than the current ones</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=10040" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751:9884 2017-05-22T03:26:39Z 2017-05-22T03:26:39Z public 1 <i><b>Ben Shephard</b> - A War of Nerves</i><br /><br />Warfare causes more than just physical wounds – but the mental side of the toll of war was really not studied for centuries (mainly because common soldiers were expendable anyway). So the study really started only around the World War One. Ben Shephard traces some of those developments, mostly based of Western European and US records. <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/9884.html#cutid1">From shell shock to PTSD</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=9884" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments