Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme

Author:   Taylor Downing
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:  

9780349141015


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Taylor Downing
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Abacus
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 19.90cm
Weight:   0.346kg
ISBN:  

9780349141015


ISBN 10:   0349141010
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   02 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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"An impressive, balanced and often deeply moving book. As the Somme's anniversary approaches, anyone who wishes to understand it and its terrible consequences should buy Breakdown * The Times * The tragic fate of the Lonsdales forms one of the most telling subplots in Breakdown, the historian Taylor Downing's superb account of the military's response to the epidemic of shell shock . . . Downing manages to offer a useful perspective by unpacking the pivotal role the cataclysm in the Somme played in the birth not just of military psychiatry, but a new era in our understanding of mental health . . . Downing's book is a necessary remind that trauma is an injury, and not a sign of weakness * New Statesman * This is a thoughtful, intelligent book . . . Thoroughly researched, highly readable and highly recommended * Military History * [A] humane and intensely moving book * Telegraph * What is innovative about Downing's approach is the interleaving of ""the crisis of shell shock"" with the military history of the Somme. He tells both histories concisely and with good balance . . . Downing is too clever a historian to rehearse cliches about things never being the same again' -- Daniel Todman * Financial Times * This vivid, compassionate account draws on harrowing first-person testimony to chronicle the sometimes humane, but more often cruel and uncaring, treatment of damaged men, both in wartime and its aftermath * Daily Mail *"


This vivid, compassionate account draws on harrowing first-person testimony to chronicle the sometimes humane, but more often cruel and uncaring, treatment of damaged men, both in wartime and its aftermath * Daily Mail * What is innovative about Downing's approach is the interleaving of the crisis of shell shock with the military history of the Somme. He tells both histories concisely and with good balance . . . Downing is too clever a historian to rehearse cliches about things never being the same again' -- Daniel Todman * Financial Times * [A] humane and intensely moving book * Telegraph * This is a thoughtful, intelligent book . . . Thoroughly researched, highly readable and highly recommended * Military History * The tragic fate of the Lonsdales forms one of the most telling subplots in Breakdown, the historian Taylor Downing's superb account of the military's response to the epidemic of shell shock . . . Downing manages to offer a useful perspective by unpacking the pivotal role the cataclysm in the Somme played in the birth not just of military psychiatry, but a new era in our understanding of mental health . . . Downing's book is a necessary remind that trauma is an injury, and not a sign of weakness * New Statesman * An impressive, balanced and often deeply moving book. As the Somme's anniversary approaches, anyone who wishes to understand it and its terrible consequences should buy Breakdown * The Times *


An impressive, balanced and often deeply moving book. As the Somme's anniversary approaches, anyone who wishes to understand it and its terrible consequences should buy Breakdown The Times The tragic fate of the Lonsdales forms one of the most telling subplots in Breakdown, the historian Taylor Downing's superb account of the military's response to the epidemic of shell shock ... Downing manages to offer a useful perspective by unpacking the pivotal role the cataclysm in the Somme played in the birth not just of military psychiatry, but a new era in our understanding of mental health ... Downing's book is a necessary remind that trauma is an injury, and not a sign of weakness New Statesman This is a thoughtful, intelligent book ... Thoroughly researched, highly readable and highly recommended Military History [A] humane and intensely moving book Telegraph What is innovative about Downing's approach is the interleaving of the crisis of shell shock with the military history of the Somme. He tells both histories concisely and with good balance ... Downing is too clever a historian to rehearse cliches about things never being the same again' -- Daniel Todman Financial Times


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Taylor Downing is a writer, historian and award-winning television producer. He read History at Cambridge University and worked at the Imperial War Museum and Thames Television before going on to become managing director and head of history at Flashback Television, a leading independent production company. His books include the bestselling Cold War (with Jeremy Isaacs), 1983, Breakdown, Secret Warriors, Night Raid, The World at War, Olympia, Spies in the Sky and Churchill's War Lab.

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