Entries tagged with military

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Soldiers' Tale

Samuel Hynes - The Soldiers' Tale

This is a book about war narratives - not war as such. Even if Hynes wrote one himself.

( Did he study too few narratives? )

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ben shephard,
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combat fatigue,
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politics,
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world war one,
world war two

Ben Shephard - A War of Nerves

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.
( From shell shock to PTSD )