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Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War Hardcover - 2004

by Barham, Peter


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Although the shell-shocked British soldier of World War I has been a favored subject in both fiction and nonfiction, focus has been on the stories of officers, and the history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties has never been told. This profoundly moving book recounts the poignant, sometimes ribald histories of this neglected group for the first time.

Peter Barham draws on reports from the front lines, case histories, personal letters, and war pensions files to trace the lives and fortunes of a large cast of ex-servicemen who suffered mental breakdowns. He describes their confinements to asylums, the reactions of families to their relatives' plight, the turmoil of the soldiers when they returned home--and the uphill struggle they faced trying to secure justice from the bureaucratic labyrinth that was the Ministry of Pensions. His book gives a new perspective to the impact of the Great War and to current controversies about disputed postwar maladies.

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  • Title Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
  • Author Barham, Peter
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 451
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Date September 10, 2004
  • ISBN 9780300103793

About the author

Peter Barham is a psychologist and social historian of mental health. He has published widely on mental health issues.

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