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Article: Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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Peter Leese. Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 229. $49.95. ISBN 0-333-96926-X.
This book is as an excellent account of British soldiers of the First World War and their experience of shell shock. Written in a refreshingly lucid and accessible style, it is a worthy contribution to the existing literature, including Elaine Showalter's Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1997); Anthony Babington's Shell-Shock: A History of the Changing Attitudes to War Neurosis (1997) and Ben Shepherd's wide-ranging and incisive A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994 ...
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