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 ...

Caught between society’s ideas of masculinity and war, these men and women struggled to communicate their experiences. Transatlantic Shell Shock examines the private and public opinions about shell ...

Sassoon was surrounded by men suffering from the condition called Shell Shock. This War of endless artillery bombardment wasn’t only killing and maiming soldiers, it was sending them mad.