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World War I: orderlies of the Royal Army Medical Corps attending to the wounded. Watercolour by D. MacPherson, 1917.

A shell-shocked man in a uniform of the British Army seated on a rock, with a sunset behind, about to kill himself. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.

War Neuroses : Netley Hospital,1917.

Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character / Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.

The ghost road / Pat Barker.

Shell shock / Wendy Holden.

Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming / Jonathan Shay ; foreword by Max Cleland and John McCain.

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War Neuroses : Netley Hospital,1917.

Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character / Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.

The ghost road / Pat Barker.

Shell shock / Wendy Holden.

Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming / Jonathan Shay ; foreword by Max Cleland and John McCain.