Peter Parker

Broken and mad

British high command’s fear that shell shock would become an ‘epidemic’ resulted in the barbarous treatment of hundreds of sufferers in the first world war

  • Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme, 1916

    Taylor Downing

    Little, Brown, pp. 401

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