Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914, at ...
Each year beneath the vaulted ceilings of Manchester Cathedral, the city gathers to honour 13 soldiers executed for “cowardice” during the First World War - men now recognised as victims of shell ...
“Shell shock,” the term that would come to define the phenomenon, first appeared in the British medical journal The Lancet in February 1915, only six months after the commencement of the war. In a ...