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02675aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 6DD6BF00658D11E99B4892F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20190423010125 008 160415t20172016enk b 001 0 eng 020 $a 0349141010 020 $a 9780349141015 035 $a (OCoLC)983197665 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $e rda $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CUS $d OCL $d SILO 050 4 $a RC550 $b .D685 2017 100 1 $a Downing, Taylor, $e author. 245 10 $a Breakdown : $b the crisis of shell shock on the Somme, 1916 / $c Taylor Downing. 250 $a Paperback edition. 264 1 $a London : $b Abacus, $c 2017. 300 $a viii, 399 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits, map ; $c 20 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a FIRST WORLD WAR. Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness. When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a debate began in army and medical circles as to what it was, what had caused it and what could be done to cure it. But the numbers were never large. Then in July 1916 with the start of the Somme battle the incidence of shell shock rocketed. The high command of the British army began to panic. An increasingly large number of men seemed to have simply lost the will to fight. As entire battalions had to be withdrawn from the front, commanders and military doctors desperately tried to come up with explanations as to what was going wrong. 'Shell shock' - what we would now refer to as battle trauma - was sweeping the Western Front. 541 $a UNI: Donated in memory of Donald E. Shepardson $5 IaCfT 650 0 $a War neuroses $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916. 611 07 $a Somme, 1st Battle of the (France : 1916) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01125774 611 27 $a World War (1914-1918) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180746 650 7 $a Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354086 650 7 $a War neuroses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170516 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 856 4 $u https://www.library.uni.edu/gateway/giftplates/memplate.php?plate=memory.jpg&name=Donald+E.+Shepardson $z View View Donald E. Shepardson giftplate $x IaCfT 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20190423015058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6DD6BF00658D11E99B4892F996128E48 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search