Two of England’s finest poets of World War I—Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen—met in a mental hospital in Scotland in 1917. Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh, is the subject of “Soldiers ...
Inability to taste, smell, or urinate. Funny walks. These are just some of the crushing psychosomatic symptoms that have afflicted soldiers during the era of modern warfare, from the trenches of World ...
Midway through his stunning new book “Soldiers Don’t Go Mad,” author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from the Times of London on Aug. 18, 1917: “The war has brought new opportunities of heroism to ...