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Author Glass, Charles, 1951- author.

Title Soldiers don't go mad : a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War / Charles Glass.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2023.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  616.8521 GLASS    DUE 03-25-24
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult New Materials  616.852 GLA    DUE 04-06-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  616.852 GLA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  616.8521 GLASS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  616.852 GLASS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8521 GLA    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  616.852 GLASS    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness - not to mention death and physical wounds - left the army unable to fill its ranks. Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A bourgeoning poet, trying to make sense of the terror he had witnessed, he read a collection of poems from a fellow officer, Siegfried Sassoon, and was impressed by his portrayal of the soldier's plight. One month later, Sassoon himself arrived at Craiglockhart, having refused to return to the front after being wounded during battle. Though Owen and Sassoon differed in age, class, education, and interests, both were outsiders - as soldiers unfit to fight, as gay men in a homophobic country, and as Britons unwilling to support a war likely to wipe out an entire generation of young men. But more than anything else, they shared a love of the English language, and its highest expression of poetry. As their friendship evolved over their months as patients at Craiglockhart, each encouraged the other in their work, in their personal reckonings with the morality of war, as well as in their treatment. Therapy provided Owen, Sassoon, and fellow patients with insights that allowed them express themselves better, and for the 28 months that Craiglockhart was in operation, it notably incubated the era's most significant developments in both psychiatry and poetry. Drawing on rich source materials, as well as Glass's own deep understanding of trauma and war, Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche. Writing beyond the battlefields, to the psychiatric couch of Craiglockhart but also the literary salons, halls of power, and country houses, Glass charts the experiences of Owen and Sassoon, and of their fellow soldier-poets, alongside the greater literary response to modern warfare. As he investigates the roots of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder, Glass brings historical bearing to how we must consider war's ravaging effects on mental health, and the ways in which creative work helps us come to terms with even the darkest of times"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects.
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 -- Mental health.
Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918.
Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918 -- Mental health.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
War neuroses -- Patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
Gay military personnel.
Craiglockhart War Hospital (Edinburgh, Scotland) -- History.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Mental health -- Great Britain.
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918. (OCoLC)fst00030191
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967. (OCoLC)fst00054624
Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
Post-traumatic stress disorder. (OCoLC)fst01072762
Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354086
Soldiers. (OCoLC)fst01125233
Veterans -- Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01165781
War and literature. (OCoLC)fst01170442
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
Chronological Term 1914-1918
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Other Form: Online version: Glass, Charles. Soldiers don't go mad New York : Penguin Press, 2023 9781984877963 (DLC) 2023007304
ISBN 9781984877956 (hardcover)
198487795X (hardcover)
9781984877963 (ebook)
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