Tag Archives: shell-shock

Regeneration (reading-as-a-writer 11)

Posted on Oct 23, 2018 by

View this post on Instagram My interest – indeed, my passion – for the #GreatWar started with Jeremy Paxton’s Great Britain’s Great War (2014), after which Testament of Youth made me cry and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston’s … Continue reading →

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Shellshock in 1920

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 by

View this post on Instagram Finally, a #WW1 medical card completed in an English hospital. This is what the doctor wrote about the 27 year old Royal Artillery Driver: “Broke down under the strain of war. Became emotional and lacking … Continue reading →

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Worthless Men (reading-as-a-writer 10)

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 by

View this post on Instagram Why do I bother writing when the world already contains books like Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan (2013)? Set in an English market town in post-Somme 1916, the action spans no more than a couple … Continue reading →

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