Michele Barrett

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

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Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is about the countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties-not of shrapnel and gas, but of the bleak trauma of the slaughter they escaped. In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the war to end all wars, and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war's end. Through their stories, Barrett sheds new light on the nature of the psychological damage of war, which for the first time became both widely acknowledged and profoundly misunderstood through the term shell shock.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84467-230-1
EAN: 9781844672301
Produktnummer: 3435960
Verlag: Verso
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 174 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.0 cm 360 g
Gewicht: 360

Über den Autor

MICHÈLE BARRETT is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Women's Oppression Today, The Anti-Social Family, and Politics of Diversity (co-authored with Roberta Hamilton).