On 17 August 1917, the meeting of two traumatised soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh would come to define our image of “shell shock”. However, poets Siegfried Sassoon and ...

There comes the moment where the shell is right on top of you, and your nerve would break and you'd throw yourself down in the mud, and cringe in the mud till it was past. REGINALD E. RICHARDS ...