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A War of Nerves
by Shephard, Ben
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0224060333
- ISBN 13
- 9780224060332
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 2000. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxiii, [1], 487, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and states: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994. Military psychiatry has long been shrouded in misconception, and haunted by the competing demands of battle and of recovery. Now, for the first time, we have a definitive history of this vital art and science, which illuminates the bumpy efforts to understand the ravages of war on the human mind, and points towards the true lessons to be learned from treating the aftermath of war. A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century-an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers, and official records, from doctors as well as ordinary soldiers. It reaches back to the moment when the technologies of modern warfare and the disciplines of psychological medicine first confronted each other on the Western Front, and traces their uneasy relationship through the eras of shell-shock, combat fatigue, and post-traumatic stress disorder. At once absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, A War of Nerves weaves together the literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War. Ben Shephard answers recurring questions about the effects of war. Why do some men crack and others not? Are the limits of resistance determined by character, heredity, upbringing, ideology, or simple biochemistry?
Synopsis
Ben Shephard was a producer on the TV series The World at War and The Nuclear Age and has made numerous historical and scientific documentaries for the BBC. He writes regularly for the TLS .
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 78212
- Title
- A War of Nerves
- Author
- Shephard, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing [Stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0224060333
- ISBN 13
- 9780224060332
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Battle Fatigue, Military Psychiatry, PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Shell-shock, Gordon Holmes, Wilfrid Owen, Operation Overlord, Thomas Salmon, War Neuroses
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