Forgotten lunatics of the Great War

Forgotten lunatics of the Great War
Peter Barham, Peter Barham
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Forgotten lunatics of the Great War

"Although the shell-shocked British soldier of World War I has been a favoured subject in both fiction and nonfiction, focus has been on the stories of officers, and the history of the thousands of rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties, and put into lunatic asylums, has never been told. Drawing on records from the front lines, case histories, personal letters and war pensions files, this profoundly moving book recounts the poignant, sometimes ribald life stories of this neglected group for the first time." "Peter Barham shows how public feeling about the injustice being shown to servicemen who had become 'insane through fighting for their country' resulted in the emergence of the People's Lunatic, producing major concessions from the authorities. He examines the fate of the People's Lunatic in the class antagonisms between the wars and the uphill struggles that ex-servicemen faced trying to secure justice from the ironic behemoth that was the Ministry of Pensions."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
451

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Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
August 21, 2007, Yale University Press
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Cover of: Forgotten lunatics of the Great War
Forgotten lunatics of the Great War
2005, Yale University Press
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Cover of: Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
September 10, 2004, Yale University Press
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New Haven, CT

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Library of Congress
RC, RC550 .B34 2004, UH629

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Pagination
viii, 451 p. :
Number of pages
451

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Open Library
OL22607855M
ISBN 10
0300103794
LCCN
2004107441
OCLC/WorldCat
56376583
Library Thing
450930
Goodreads
6285

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