Book review: Breakdown: The crisis of shell shock on the Somme, 1916

In ‘Breakdown’ Taylor Downing attempts to unpack the obfuscation surrounding the syndrome named shellshock in 1916 and post-traumatic stress disorder in 2016.

Sat, 11 Mar, 2017 - 00:00

Review: Josephine Fenton

Taylor Downing

Abacus, €13 paperback; €30, hardback

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